sepulcrum
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sepeliō (“I inter”) + -crum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈpul.krum/, [s̠ɛˈpʊɫ̪krʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈpul.krum/, [seˈpulkrum]
Noun
[edit]sepulcrum n (genitive sepulcrī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sepulcrum | sepulcra |
genitive | sepulcrī | sepulcrōrum |
dative | sepulcrō | sepulcrīs |
accusative | sepulcrum | sepulcra |
ablative | sepulcrō | sepulcrīs |
vocative | sepulcrum | sepulcra |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sepulcrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sepulcrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sepulcrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
- the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
- this is the inscription on his tomb..: sepulcro (Dat.) or in sepulcro hoc inscriptum est
- to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
- “sepulcrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sepulcrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin