seppellire

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sepellīre~*sepullīre, from Latin sepelīre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sep.pelˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: sep‧pel‧lì‧re
  • (file)

Verb

seppellìre (first-person singular present seppellìsco, first-person singular past historic seppellìi, past participle sepólto or seppellìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to bury, to inter
    • c. 1944, “Bella ciao [Goodbye Beautiful!]”:
      E se io muoio da partigiano, / tu mi devi seppellir.
      And if I die as a partisan / Then you must bury me

Conjugation

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