sepelio

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈpe.li.oː/, [s̠ɛˈpɛlʲioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈpe.li.o/, [seˈpɛːlio]

sepeliō (present infinitive sepelīre, perfect active sepelīvī, supine sepultum); fourth conjugation

1. to bury, inter

   Synonyms: obruō, dēmergō, mergō

2. to burn on a funeral pyre
3. (figuratively) to destroy, ruin, overwhelm

   Synonyms: ruīnō, ēvāstō, dēvāstō, dēstruō, aboleō, dīruō, exscindō, perdō, occīdō, tollō, vāstō, populor, impellō, interimō, accīdō, perimō, absūmō, trucīdō

   Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

4. to suppress

   Synonyms: supprimō, opprimō, reprimō, comprimō, dēprimō, cohibeō, premō, angō

5. to submerge

   Synonyms: dēmergō, summergō, immergō, dēmittō, prōcumbō, supprimō, mergō

• sepulcrālis
• sepulcrētum
• sepultūrārius

• Vulgar Latin: sepelliō (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: sepelir
• → Spanish: sepelir

• “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

From Latin sepelīre, sepelio.

• IPA^(key): /seˈpeljo/ [seˈpe.ljo]
• Rhymes: -eljo
• Syllabification: se‧pe‧lio

sepelio m (plural sepelios)

1. burial

   Synonym: entierro

• “sepelio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28