sepelio
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *sep-el-ie/o- (“to honor”), originally meaning in Latin “to perform rituals on a corpse,” from Proto-Indo-European *sep- (“to care for, honor”). Cognate with Sanskrit सप् (sap, “to honor”), सपर्यति (saparyati, “honors”), and Ancient Greek ἕπω (hépō, “to busy oneself with”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈpe.li.oː/, [s̠ɛˈpɛlʲioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈpe.li.o/, [seˈpɛːlio]
Verb edit
sepeliō (present infinitive sepelīre, perfect active sepelīvī, supine sepultum); fourth conjugation
- to bury, inter
- to burn on a funeral pyre
- (figuratively) to destroy, ruin, overwhelm
- to suppress
- to submerge
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Descendants edit
- Vulgar Latin: sepelliō (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: sepelir
- → Spanish: sepelir
References edit
- “sepelio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sepelio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sepelio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- sepelio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 555
Spanish edit
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Noun edit
sepelio m (plural sepelios)
Further reading edit
- “sepelio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014