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"to bury" in seven languages

Meaningto bury

Spanish

enterrar

/enteˈraɾ/

inherited

French

enterrer

/ɑ̃teʁe/

inherited

Italian

seppellire

/seppelˈlire/

other source · Latin SEPELĪRE 'to bury'

Interrare exists, but for putting seeds or pipes into the ground.

Portuguese

enterrar

/ẽteˈhah/

inherited

Romanian

îngropa

/ɨnɡroˈpa/

other source · groapă 'pit', a pre-Roman word shared with Albanian gropë

For a funeral the formal verb is înmormânta, from mormânt 'grave' (Latin MONUMENTUM).

Catalan

enterrar

/əntəˈra/

inherited

English

bury

/ˈbɛɹi/

native English · Old English byrgan

English → Italianto buryseppellireNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: inter, terrain, territory, terrace.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

*INTERRĀRE‘to put into the earth (TERRA)’

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

The story

Spanish and French 'put into the earth' (TERRA); Italian alone kept the classical verb SEPELĪRE, whose participle gave learned sepulcro, sépulcre, sepolcro and English sepulchre.

English relatives: inter, terrain, territory, terrace

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In a sentence

  • esLo enterraron en su pueblo.
  • frIls l'ont enterré dans son village.
  • itL'hanno seppellito nel suo paese.
  • ptEle foi enterrado na cidade dele.
  • roL-au îngropat în satul lui.
  • caEl van enterrar al seu poble.
  • enThey buried him in his village.

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