sepultura

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sepultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/, [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.pulˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [se.pulˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. burial
2. grave (excavation for burial)

Related terms

• sepultar

Further reading

• “sepultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sepultura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sepultura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sepultura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin sepultūra.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sepulˈtuɾa]

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

Further reading

• “sepultura” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Latin

Etymology

From sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“I bury”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se.pulˈtuː.ra/, [s̠ɛpʊɫ̪ˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.pulˈtu.ra/, [sepul̪ˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

sepultūra f (genitive sepultūrae); first declension

1. A burial, funeral, interment, a sepulchering

   Synonym: fūnus

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:10

     contigit autem ut quadam die fatigatus a sepultura veniens domum iactasset se iuxta parietem et obdormisset

     Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sepultūra	sepultūrae
Genitive	sepultūrae	sepultūrārum
Dative	sepultūrae	sepultūrīs
Accusative	sepultūram	sepultūrās
Ablative	sepultūrā	sepultūrīs
Vocative	sepultūra	sepultūrae

Related terms

• sepeliō
• sepulcrum
• sepulcrālis
• sepulcrētum

 

Descendants

• Asturian: sepultura
• Catalan: sepultura
• English: sepulture
• French: sépulture
• Friulian: sepulture
• Italian: sepoltura
• Norman: sépultuthe
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sepultura
  • Galician: sepultura
  • Portuguese: sepultura
• Piedmontese: sepoltura
• Romanian: sepultură
• Spanish: sepultura

References

• “sepultura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sepultura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sepultura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sepultura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bury a person: sepultura aliquem afficere
    
  • to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere
    

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sepultura, borrowed from Latin sepultūra (“burial”), from sepultus, perfect passive participle of sepeliō (“to bury”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.puwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [se.puʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.puwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [se.puʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.puwˈtu.ɾa/ [se.puʊ̯ˈtu.ɾa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.pulˈtu.ɾɐ/ [sɨ.puɫˈtu.ɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

   Synonyms: carneiro, cova, jazigo, sepulcro, tumba, túmulo

Related terms

• sepultador
• sepultadora
• sepultamento
• sepultante
• sepultar
• sepulto
• sepultureiro

 

Further reading

• “sepultura” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “sepultura” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sepultura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “sepultura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra. Cognate with English sepulture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/ [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. the act or state of burial

   Synonym: entierro

2. grave (a hole made in the Earth to bury a corpse)

   Synonym: tumba

Derived terms

• genio y figura hasta la sepultura
• sepultamiento
• sepulturero

 

Further reading

• “sepultura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014