funeral
English
Etymology
[1437] Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“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): /ˈfjuːnəɹəl/, /ˈfjuːnɹəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfjunəɹəl/
- Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral, fun‧eral
Audio (GA) (file)
Noun
funeral (plural funerals)
- A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
- No one likes to go to funerals.
- (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon.
- South
- Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.
- South
Derived terms
Translations
ceremony to honour a deceased person
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Adjective
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A funeral procession in Peru
funeral (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Alternative form of funereal
- 1852, Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, page 367:
- All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.
- 1869, William Carleton, Tubber Derg: Or, The Red Well, page 166:
- Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.
- 1888, Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's - Volume 5, page 153:
- There was something dramatic and theatrical in the very funeral ceremonies with which Demetrius was honored.
- 1998, Lisa M. Klein, The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer, page 15:
- The very funeral pageantry disguised behind-the-scenes struggles for control over Sidney's image.
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References
- funeral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- funeral at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Adjective
funeral (masculine and feminine plural funerals)
Further reading
- “funeral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /funeˈɾal/
- Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral
Further reading
- “funeral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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