different between sepulture vs sepulcher

English

Etymology

From Middle English sepulture, sepultur, from Old French sepulture, from Latin sepultura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?p??t??(?)/, /?s?p???t???(?)/

Noun

sepulture (countable and uncountable, plural sepultures)

1. (uncountable) The act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre.
   • 1715-20, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer

     By thy own soul! by those who gave thee breath!
     By all the sacred prevalence of prayer;
     Ah, leave me not for Grecian dogs to tear!
     The common rites of sepulture bestow.
     To soothe 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.

Synonyms

• (act of sepulchring): interment

Verb

sepulture (third-person singular simple present sepultures, present participle sepulturing, simple past and past participle sepultured)

1. (transitive) To inter in a sepulture.

Latin

Participle

sepult?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sepult?rus

English

Alternative forms

• sepulchre (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English sepulcre and Old French sepulcre, from Latin sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?p??k?/

Noun

sepulcher (plural sepulchers)

1. A burial chamber.

Synonyms

• tomb

Translations

Verb

sepulcher (third-person singular simple present sepulchers, present participle sepulchering, simple past and past participle sepulchered)

1. To bury the dead.

Synonyms

• inter

Related terms

• right of sepulchre
• sepulchral
• sepulture

Anagrams

• sepulchre