different between visitation vs funeral

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin v?sit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
4. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
5. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
6. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Translations

Anagrams

• vitiations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?sit?ti?.

Noun

visitation f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

1. visitation (act of visiting)
2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Alternative forms

• funerall (obsolete)

Etymology

[1437] Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin f?ner?lia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin f?ner?lis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin f?nus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fju?n???l/, /?fju?n??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fjun???l/
• Hyphenation: fu?ne?ral, fun?eral

Noun

funeral (plural funerals)

1. A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
2. (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon.

Derived terms

Related terms

• funerary
• funereal

Translations

Adjective

funeral (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of funereal

See also

• cemetery
• mortuary
• obsequy, obsequies

References

• funeral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• funeral at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -flurane, earnful, flaneur, flurane, flâneur, frenula, real fun

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin f?ner?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fu.n???al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fu.ne??al/

Adjective

funeral (masculine and feminine plural funerals)

1. funerary, funeral

   Synonyms: funerari, fúnebre

Noun

funeral m (plural funerals)

1. (often in the plural) funeral (ceremony)

Related terms

• fúnebre
• funerari
• funest

Further reading

• “funeral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fu?ne?ral

Noun

funeral m (plural funerais)

1. funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyne?ral/

Noun

funeral m

1. funeral

Related terms

• funerari

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin f?ner?lis, from Latin funus.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fune??aw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fun???a?/
• Hyphenation: fu?ne?ral

Noun

funeral m (plural funerais)

1. funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)

Adjective

funeral m or f (plural funerais, comparable)

1. funeral (relating to or similar in style or atmosphere to a funeral)

Related terms

• funerário

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin f?ner?lis, from Latin funus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fune??al/, [fu.ne??al]
• Hyphenation: fu?ne?ral

Adjective

funeral (plural funerales)

1. funerary, funeral

   Synonyms: funerario, fúnebre

Noun

funeral m (plural funerales)

1. (often in the plural) funeral (ceremony)

Related terms

• funeraria
• funerario
• fúnebre
• funesto

Further reading

• “funeral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.