different between burial vs inhumation

English

Alternative forms

• buriall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beriel, a re-interpretation of Old English byr?els as a plural, from byr?an (“to bury”) + -els.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b????l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??i?l/
• (regional US) IPA^(key): /?b?i?l/

Noun

burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)

1. The act of burying; interment

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:interment

Translations

English

Etymology

From inhume +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.hju??me?.??n/

Noun

inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

1. The act of burial.
   • 1885, "Cremation or Burial," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 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, Eti Bonn-Muller, "Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org, 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 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

French

Etymology

inhumer +? -ation

Pronunciation

Noun

inhumation f (plural inhumations)

1. inhumation