# funeral
## English
### Alternative forms

* funerall (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437.
Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfjuːnəɹəl/, /ˈfjuːnɹəl/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfjunəɹəl/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːnəɹəl, -uːnɹəl
* Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral, fun‧eral

### Noun

funeral (plural funerals)
* A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
    Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.
** 1661, Giles Collier, The Taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Persons Must Be Taken to Heart, Applied in a Sermon at the Funeralls of M$^{ris}$ Anne-Mary Child. […], Oxford: […] William Hall:The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF M$^{ris}$ ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire. […] TO THE Exemplarily Vertuous Gentle-woman, his much honoured friend, M$^{rs}$ ANNE CHILD, Eldeſt daughter of THOMAS CHILD of Northwicke Eſquire. AS I mean not an exerciſe for your modeſty by a flattering Epiſtle, ſo neither doe I intend the renewing of your ſorrows, by preſenting you with the plaine Sermon preach’t at the funerals of your bleſſed Mother.
* (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon.

#### Derived terms

* arrange someone's funeral
* cyberfuneral
* funeral celebrant
* funeral director
* funeral doom
* funeral door
* funeralgoer
* funeral-goer
* funeral home
* funeralist
* funeralize
* funeral march
* funeral parlor
* funeral parlour
* funeral pie
* funeral potatoes
* funeral pyre
* funeral rite
* funeral store
* it's one's funeral
* it's someone's funeral
* jazz funeral
* mass funeral
* Mormon funeral potatoes
* nonfuneral
* pauper's funeral
* paupers' funerals
* postfuneral
* prefuneral
* public health funeral
* state funeral
* you'll be late for your own funeral

#### Related terms

* funerary
* funereal

#### Translations
### Adjective

funeral (not generally comparable, comparative more funeral, superlative most funeral)
* (uncommon) Alternative spelling of funereal
** 1852, Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, page 367:All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.
** 1869, William Carleton, Tubber Derg: Or, The Red Well, page 166:Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.
** 1888, Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's - Volume 5, page 153:There was something dramatic and theatrical in the very funeral ceremonies with which Demetrius was honored.
** 1998, Lisa M. Klein, The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer, page 15:The very funeral pageantry disguised behind-the-scenes struggles for control over Sidney's image.

### See also

* celebration of life
* cemetery
* mortuary
* obsequy, obsequies

### References

* “funeral”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “funeral”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* -flurane, earnful, flaneur, flurane, flâneur, frenula, unflare

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fūnerālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [fu.nəˈɾal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [fu.neˈɾal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral

### Adjective

funeral m or f (masculine and feminine plural funerals)
* funerary, funeral
    Synonyms: funerari, fúnebre

### Noun

funeral m (plural funerals)
* (often in the plural) funeral (ceremony)

#### Related terms

* fúnebre
* funerari
* funest

### References

* “funeral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “funeral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /funeˈɾal/ [fu.neˈɾɑɫ]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral

### Noun

funeral m (plural funerais)
* funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fyneˈral/

### Noun

funeral m
* funeral

#### Related terms

* funerari

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fu.neˈɾaw/ [fu.neˈɾaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /fu.nɨˈɾal/ [fu.nɨˈɾaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /fu.nɨˈɾal/ [fu.nɨˈɾaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /fu.nɨˈɾa.li/
* Rhymes: (Portigal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral

### Noun

funeral m (plural funerais)
* funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)

#### Usage notes

In Portuguese, it is more common to refer to the wake (velório) than to the funeral.

### Adjective

funeral m or f (plural funerais)
* funeral; funerary (relating to a funeral)
    Synonyms: fúnebre, funerário
* (literary) funeral; gloomy; dreary
    Synonyms: fúnebre, funesto, lúgubre

#### Related terms

* fúnebre
* funerária
* funerário
* funéreo
* funesto

### See also

* velório
* enterro
* sepultamento

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /funeˈɾal/ [fu.neˈɾal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: fu‧ne‧ral

### Adjective

funeral m or f (masculine and feminine plural funerales)
* funerary, funeral
    Synonyms: funerario, fúnebre

### Noun

funeral m (plural funerales)
* funeral (ceremony)

#### Related terms

* a la funerala
* fúnebre
* funeraria
* funerario
* funesto
* ojo a la funerala

### Further reading

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