inhumation

English

Etymology

From inhume +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

1. The act of burial.
   • 1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 September 2010:

     "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.

   • 2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 September 2010:

     Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.

2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3. (medicine) Arenation.

Synonyms

• burial, entombment, interment

Antonyms

• disinterment, exhumation

Translations

The act of burial

• Bulgarian: погребение (bg) n (pogrebenie)
• Catalan: inhumació f
• French: inhumation (fr) f
• Galician: inhumación (gl), enterramento (gl) m, soterramento (gl) m
• German: Inhumation f (archeological), Erdbestattung f, Beerdigung (de) f
• Italian: inumazione f
• Polish: inhumacja (pl) f, pochówek (pl) m
• Spanish: inhumación f (archeological), entierro (es) m

French

Etymology

From inhumer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ny.ma.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

inhumation f (plural inhumations)

1. inhumation

   Synonym: mise en terre

   Coordinate term: exhumation

Further reading

• “inhumation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.