# sepultura
## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin sepultūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sepulˈtuɾa/ [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)
* grave (excavation for burial)

### Further reading

* Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

sepultura f (plural sepultures)
* burial
* grave (excavation for burial)

#### Related terms

* sepultar

### Further reading

* “sepultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin sepultūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sepulˈtuɾa/ [s̺e.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)
* grave (excavation for burial)

#### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /se.pulˈtuː.ra/, [s̠ɛpʊɫ̪ˈt̪uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /se.pulˈtu.ra/, [sepul̪ˈt̪uːrä]

### Noun

sepultūra f (genitive sepultūrae); first declension
* 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 obdormissetNow 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.

#### 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
* 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’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, London: Macmillan and Co. to bury a person: sepultura aliquem afficere to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /se.puwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [se.puʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /se.puwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [se.puʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /se.puwˈtu.ɾa/ [se.puʊ̯ˈtu.ɾa]
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɨ.pulˈtu.ɾɐ/ [sɨ.puɫˈtu.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)
* grave (excavation for burial)
    Synonyms: carneiro, cova, jazigo, sepulcro, tumba, túmulo

#### Related terms

* sepultador
* sepultadora
* sepultamento
* sepultante
* sepultar
* sepulto
* sepultureiro

### Further reading

* “sepultura”, in iDicionário Aulete (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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sepultūra. Cognate with English sepulture.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sepulˈtuɾa/ [se.pul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
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* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: se‧pul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

sepultura f (plural sepulturas)
* the act or state of burial
    Synonym: entierro
* 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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10