Latin

Alternative forms

• sepulchrum

Noun

sepulcrum n ‎(genitive sepulcrī); second declension

1. grave, burial place
2. tomb, sepulchre

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• sepulcrālis
• sepulcrētum
• sepultūra

References

• sepulcrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sepulcrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sepulcrum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
    
  • the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
    
  • this is the inscription on his tomb..: sepulcro (Dat.) or in sepulcro hoc inscriptum est
    
• sepulcrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sepulcrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin