sepultureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛpəɫt͡ʃ ə(ɹ)/, /ˈsɛpəɫˌt͡ʃ ʊə(ɹ)/

名詞

sepulture (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sepultures)

1. (uncountable) The act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre.
   • 1720, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book XXII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, lines 426–432, pages 22–23:

     By thy own Soul! by thoſe who gave thee Breath!
     By all the ſacred Prevalence of Pray'r;
     Ah, leave me not for Grecian Dogs to tear!
     The common Rites of Sepulture beſtow,
     To ſooth a Father's and a Mother's Woe;
     Let their large Gifts procure an Urn at leaſt,
     And Hector⁠'s Ashes in his Country reſt.

2. (archaic) Alternative form of sepulchre.

同意語

• (act of sepulchring): interment

派生語

• sepultural

動詞

sepulture (三人称単数 現在形 sepultures, 現在分詞 sepulturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sepultured)

1. (transitive) To inter in a sepulture.

Latin

Participle

sepultūre

1. vocative masculine singular of sepultūrus