English → Latin
“funeral” in Latin
fūnusfuneral; death; dead body, corpsepompaprocession, parade; pompiūstusjust, righteous; lawful, legal; justified, merited, well-deserved, duesepeliōto bury, inter; to burn on a funeral pyre; to destroy, ruin, overwhelmapparātusready, prepared; well-supplied, furnished; magnificent, sumptuous, elaborate
The English word funeral itself goes back to Latin fūnus, through fūnerālia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
funeral
funus (ἐκφορά; general term, the carrying out of the corpse): exsequiae funeris, and simply exsequiae all that follows the corpse; a funeral train; funeral procession): pompa funeris, and simply pompa (a splendid funeral profession, when the persons who accompanied it were attended also with further pomp, as the bearing of the images of ancestors, etc.): justa, orum, neuter; justa funebria, neuter plur. (the last duties paid to a corpse, which were prescribed by law or adopted by custom): sepultura (the way and manner of burying a corpse; burial as a solemnity). A numerously attended funeral, celebritas supremi diei (Cic., Milan., 32, 86): a splendid funeral, funus amplum, apparatissimum: an honorable funeral, funus honestum: to celebrate a funeral, funus facere; funus exsequiis celebrare: to make a funeral for anybody, funus alicui facere, ducere; funere efferre aliquem; alicui or alicujus funeri justa facere, solvere: a magnificent funeral, funus quanto possum apparatu facio; justa magnifice facere: to make a magnificent funeral for anybody, amplo, or magnifico, or apparatissimo funere aliquem efferre: to make anybody a magnificent and honorable funeral, funus alicujus omni apparatu et honore celebrare; alicui pompam funeris honestam et magnificam facere: to give anybody a princely funeral, efferre aliquem sollemni principum pompa (after Suet., Claud., 45, where, for efferre, the un-classical funerare): to give anybody a royal funeral, prope regio funere aliquem efferre; regio more alicui justa facere: to make anybody a plain funeral, aliquem sine ulla pompa funeris efferre: to order one’s own funeral to be made (in one’s own lifetime), sibi vivo et videnti funus dici jubere (as the Emperor Charles V. did; after Cic., Quint., 15, extr.): componi se in lecto et velut mortuum a circumstante familia se plangi jubere (to cause one’s self, in one’s lifetime, to be lamented as if dead, by one’s domestics, as Turranius did, accusative to Sen., De Brev. vit., 20): to attend anybody’s funeral, funus exsequi; exsequias comitari; exsequias funeris alicujus prosequi; alicui in funus prodire; in funus alicujus accedere (to join one’s self to anybody’s funeralprocession): to invite anybody to a funeral, aliquem evocare ad funus; to the funeral of anybody, ut aliquis alicui in funus prodeat.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for funeral?
- The usual Latin words for “funeral” are fūnus, pompa, iūstus; also sepeliō, apparātus. 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.