"funeral" in seven languages

Meaningfuneral

Spanish

funeral

/funeˈɾal/

masc.learned

Also funerales (plural) and the plainer entierro 'burial'.

French

funérailles

/fyneʁaj/

fem.learned

Plural only; everyday French often says les obsèques or l'enterrement.

Italian

funerale

/funeˈrale/

masc.learned

Portuguese

funeral

/funeˈɾaw/

masc.learned

In everyday Brazilian speech also o enterro or o velório (the wake).

Romanian

înmormântare

/ɨnmormɨnˈtare/

fem.other source · înmormânta 'to bury', from mormânt 'grave' (Latin MONUMENTUM)

Formal Romanian also has funeralii (plural only).

Catalan

funeral

/funəˈɾal/

masc.learned

English

funeral

/ˈfjunɚəl/

from Latin/French · Old French funeraille, Medieval Latin FŪNERĀLIA

English → ItalianfuneralfuneraleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

FŪNERĀLIA‘funeral rites (FŪNUS 'burial')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

Late Latin FŪNERĀLIA, 'things of the burial', was borrowed by all four. French kept it plural (les funérailles), as English once did.

English relatives: funereal