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funeral

Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.nə.ɹəl/

The English word “funeral” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
  2. A funeral sermon.

Etymology

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…

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