sepultura

See also: sepulturą

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sepultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/ [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

Further reading

• “sepultura”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “sepultura”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.pulˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.pulˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. burial
2. grave (excavation for burial)

Related terms

• sepultar

Further reading

• “sepultura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sepultura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sepultura, a learned borrowing from Latin sepultura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sepulˈtuɾa/ [s̺e.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

   Synonyms: cova, tumba

   De grandes ceas están as sepulturas cheas (proverb)

   Graves get filled with heavy dinners

Further reading

• “sepultura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sepultura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sepultura”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sepultura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sepultura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sepultura”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Etymology

From sepeliō (“to bury”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛ.pʊɫˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [se.pulˈtuː.ra]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	sepultūra	sepultūrae
genitive	sepultūrae	sepultūrārum
dative	sepultūrae	sepultūrīs
accusative	sepultūram	sepultūrās
ablative	sepultūrā	sepultūrīs
vocative	sepultūra	sepultūrae

Related terms

• sepeliō
• sepulcrālis
• sepulcrētum
• sepulcrum

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
• → Polish: sepultura, sepetura (Central Greater Poland, Kalisz, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship) (learned)
• 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, 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
    

Polish

Alternative forms

• sepetura (Central Greater Poland, Kalisz, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sepultūra. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.pulˈtu.ra/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /sɛ.pulˈtu.ra/

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

Noun

sepultura f

1. (obsolete, law) death certificate, funeral certificate

Declension

Declension of sepultura

	singular	plural
nominative	sepultura	sepultury
genitive	sepultury	sepultur
dative	sepulturze	sepulturom
accusative	sepulturę	sepultury
instrumental	sepulturą	sepulturami
locative	sepulturze	sepulturach
vocative	sepulturo	sepultury

Further reading

• sepultura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “SEPULTURA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.05.2015
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “sepultura”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• Jan Karłowicz (1907), “sepultura”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 5: R S Ś T, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 113

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]

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• 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 Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “sepultura”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025