funeral

[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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːnəɹəl/, /ˈfjuːnɹəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfjunəɹəl/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral, fun‧eral

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funeral (plural funerals)

1. 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.

2. (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon.
   • South

     Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.

• funeral director
• funeral parlour

• funerary
• funereal

A funeral procession in Peru

funeral (not comparable)

1. (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.

• cemetery
• mortuary
• obsequy, obsequies

• funeral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• funeral at OneLook Dictionary Search

• earnful, flaneur, flurane, flâneur, frenula

From Latin fūnerālis.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fu.nəˈɾal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fu.neˈɾal/

funeral (masculine and feminine plural funerals)

1. funerary, funeral

   Synonyms: funerari, fúnebre

funeral m (plural funerals)

1. (often in the plural) funeral (ceremony)

• fúnebre
• funerari
• funest

• “funeral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral

funeral m (plural funerais)

1. funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)

Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /funeˈɾaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /funɨˈɾaɫ/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral

funeral m (plural funerais)

1. funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)

funeral m or f (plural funerais, comparable)

1. funeral (relating to or similar in style or atmosphere to a funeral)

• funerário

Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.

• IPA^(key): /funeˈɾal/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ne‧ral

funeral (plural funerales)

1. funerary, funeral

   Synonyms: funerario, fúnebre

funeral m (plural funerales)

1. (often in the plural) funeral (ceremony)

• funeraria
• funerario
• fúnebre
• funesto

• “funeral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.