obituary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius (“obituary”) + English -ary (suffix denoting something relating to another thing or used in a place). Obituārius is derived from Latin obitus (“act of approaching or going toward, an approach; act of going down, setting; of the sun: sunset; death; destruction, downfall, ruin”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); while obitus is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of obeō (“to go to meet, go towards; (figurative) to die, pass away, perish; (astronomy) to set”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘toward’) + eō (“to go, move”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).
Inflected forms:
form: obituaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more obituary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obituary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
pos: noun
examples: [N]ot one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?
The newspaper came in, as usual, after breakfast. I looked it over, and discovered this memorable entry, among the obituary announcements of the day:— "On the 29th inst., at Brighton, Michael Vanstone, Esq., formerly of Zurich, aged 77."
“You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son’s obituary using ChatGPT,” Mr. Taylor said.
gloss: A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
Obituary editors are confronted daily with the need to make delicate hermeneutic interpretations of the social meaning of individuals' deaths and to express these powerfully to their readership. […] [I draw] attention to a discrepancy that appears to exist between, on the one hand, the editors' subjective avowals about the openness of the obituary columns and, on the other hand, the objectively highly restricted origins and trajectories of the obituary subjects.
gloss: An announcement or description of the end of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Mouths were agape on the announcement of England's starting lineup, the return of Keira Walsh appearing miraculous 10 days after she left the pitch on a stretcher in agony. Walsh’s World Cup obituaries were written; she was England's most valuable player, irreplaceable.
gloss: A register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Relating to obituaries.
pos: adj
examples: He is the paper's obituary editor.
Related words: obital
obitual
necrographer
Derived words: obit
obituarial
obituarian
obituarily
obituarist
obituarize
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: doodberig
lang: Arabic
word: نَعْي
roman: naʕy
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nekroloq
lang: Bulgarian
word: некролог
roman: nekrolog
lang: Bulgarian
word: скръ́бна вест
roman: skrǎ́bna vest
lang: Catalan
word: obituari
lang: Catalan
word: esquela
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏕᎦᏃᏣᎸᎤᏲᎱᏒ
roman: deganotsalvuyohusv
lang: Chinese
word: 白帖
roman: pe̍h-thiap, pe̍eh-thiap
lang: Chinese
word: 白帖仔
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 訃告 /讣告
roman: fùgào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 訃聞 /讣闻
roman: fùwén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 訃音 /讣音
roman: fùyīn
lang: Danish
word: dødsannonce
lang: Dutch
word: doodsbrief
lang: Esperanto
word: nekrologo
lang: Finnish
word: kuolinilmoitus
lang: French
word: nécrologie
lang: French
word: nécro
lang: Galician
word: obituario
lang: Galician
word: necrolóxica
lang: Georgian
word: ნეკროლოგი
roman: neḳrologi
lang: German
word: Nekrolog
lang: German
word: Parte
lang: German
word: Partezettel
lang: German
word: Todesanzeige
lang: German
word: Totenzettel
lang: German
word: Traueranzeige
lang: Greek
word: αναγγελία θανάτου
roman: anangelía thanátou
lang: Greek
word: νεκρολογία
roman: nekrología
lang: Gujarati
word: અવસાન નોંધ
roman: avasān nondh
lang: Hebrew
word: מוֹדַעַת אֵבֶל
roman: moda'át evel
lang: Hindi
word: इत्तेला-ए-वफ़ात
roman: ittelā-e-vafāt
lang: Hungarian
word: gyászjelentés
lang: Icelandic
word: minning
lang: Ido
word: nekrologo
lang: Indonesian
word: berita duka
lang: Indonesian
word: kabar duka
lang: Irish
word: scéala báis
lang: Italian
word: necrologio
lang: Japanese
word: 訃
roman: fu
lang: Japanese
word: 訃報
roman: fuhō
lang: Japanese
word: 死亡記事
roman: shibō kiji
lang: Korean
word: 부음
roman: bueum
lang: Korean
word: 부고
roman: bugo
lang: Korean
word: 행장
roman: haengjang
lang: Latin
word: obituārius
lang: Lithuanian
word: nekrologas
lang: Macedonian
word: некроло́г
roman: nekrológ
lang: Macedonian
word: посмр́тница
roman: posmŕtnica
lang: Malay
word: obituari
lang: Norwegian
word: dødsannonse
lang: Norwegian
word: nekrolog
lang: Persian
word: اعلامیه فوت
roman: e'lâmiye-ye fowt
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Läwensvezeichniss
lang: Polish
word: klepsydra
lang: Polish
word: nekrolog
lang: Portuguese
word: obituário
lang: Romanian
word: necrolog
lang: Russian
word: некроло́г
roman: nekrológ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: iomradh-bàis
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: osmrtnica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: umrlica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: parta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: partecetl
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: умрлица
lang: Slovene
word: osmrtnica
lang: Spanish
word: obituario
lang: Spanish
word: esquela
lang: Spanish
word: necrología
lang: Swahili
word: tanzia
lang: Swedish
word: dödsannons
lang: Swedish
word: dödsnotis
lang: Swedish
word: minnesord
lang: Tagalog
word: obitwaryo
lang: Telugu
word: స్మృతి
roman: smr̥ti
lang: Ukrainian
word: некроло́г
roman: nekrolóh
lang: Urdu
word: اطلاع وفات
roman: ittelā-e-vafāt
lang: Vietnamese
word: cáo phó
lang: Welsh
word: ysgrif goffa
lang: Yoruba
word: òbíṣúárì