Sepulture
/ˈsɛp.əl.tʃər/noun
The act of burying a dead body or the place where it is buried.
Did you know?Sepulture comes from Latin sepultura, the noun for burial, ultimately from a root meaning “to sow” or “to plant,” because the dead were once imagined as being placed back into the earth like seeds.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*seh₁-
“to sow, scatter seed”
Latin
Latin
semen
“seed”
Latin
Latin
sepelīre
“to bury, inter”
Latin
Latin
sepultura
“burial, interment”
Old French
Old French
sepulture
“burial place; grave”
Middle English
English
sepulture
“burial; grave; interment”
Modern English
English
sepulture
“burial or a burial place”