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“bury” in Latin
sepeliōto bury, inter; to burn on a funeral pyre; to destroy, ruin, overwhelmhumōto bury; to perform funeral ritesterradry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth); ground, floor (the surface of the land); earth, soil, dirt, clay, clcondōto put together; to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct; to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; interīnfodiōto dig in or up, bury in the earth, inter, make by digging; excavatedēfodiōto dig deep or downwards; excavate; to bury in earth; plant; to hide, conceal, coverobruōto overwhelm or overthrow, overpower; to bury; to concealopprimōto press down upon; to suppress; to take by surprise; to capturepōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bury
sepelire (general term), humare (both, but especially sepelire, like θάπτειν, of any mode of disposing of a corpse: quod nunc communiter in omnibus sepultis ponitur, ut humati dicantur, id erat proprium tum in iis, quos humus injecta contegeret, Cic., Legg., 2, 22, 56): humo tegere: terra, humo contegere (bury): in sepulcro condere or condere only (poetical and post-Augustan tumulare, contumulare): corpus alicujus tumulo inferre (Ter.): funere efferre with or without foras (to carry out for burial) infodere (shuffle into the ground). To bury one alive, vivum aliquem defodere: to be buried alive, vivum terra obrui. To bury with military honors, militari honesto funere aliquem humare.
To put in the ground, infodere (in terram), defodere (in terram), obruere (terra).
To overwhelm, obruere, opprimere: to bury in oblivion, oblivione obruere: to be buried in oblivion, aeterna oblivione obrutum esse: to be buried in the ruins, ruina alicujus rei (domus, etc.) opprimi: in the waves, undis obrui, hauriri.
To hide, etc., sepelire; ponere (dismiss; e.g., amorem): obruere. Bury in oblivion, oblivione obniere. To bury one’s self in one’s country seat, rua se abdere. More under FUNERAL.
Bury
Buria, -ae (f.); Faustini villa
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bury?
- The usual Latin words for “bury” are sepeliō, humō, terra; also condō, īnfodiō, dēfodiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.