Skip to content

sepultura

burial

noun seh-pool-TOO-rah Rare
People & Society Community

Origin: From Latin sepultura (burial, tomb).

Also means

grave

Usage Note

Sepultura can refer both to the act of burial and to the physical grave or tomb. Dar sepultura is the formal expression for 'to bury'. In everyday informal speech enterrar (verb) and tumba or tumba / fosa (noun) are more common. The word appears frequently in literary, religious, and legal contexts.

Examples

"Le dieron sepultura en el cementerio local."

Natural Translation

He was buried in the local cemetery.

Literal Translation

They gave him burial in the local cemetery.

Free starter pack

Building your Spanish vocabulary?

Get the 100 most common Spanish words as a free PDF — one email, no spam.

Explore Spanish by topic