sepultura

From Latin sepultūra.

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

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

• “sepultura” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra.

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

sepultura f (plural sepultures)

1. burial
2. grave (excavation for burial)

• sepultar

• “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, 2025
• “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.

From Latin sepultūra.

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

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

• “sepultura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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

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

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,

First-declension noun.

• “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
    

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

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

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)

1. grave (excavation for burial)

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

• “sepultura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “sepultura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “sepultura”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “sepultura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra. Cognate with English sepulture.

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

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

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

• “sepultura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024