different between inhumation vs obsequies

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??bs?.kwi?z/

Noun

obsequies pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) Funeral rites.

Usage notes

• the plural only usage is favored by the Oxford Dictionary, and thus can be considered to be British, whereas Webster's dictionary, with prevalence of the usage in the plural being noted, gives both singular and plural forms of the word.
• in modern usage, not to be confused with obsequious

Translations

Noun

obsequies

1. plural of obsequy.
2. plural of obsequie.

References

• The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. American Edition. Oxford University Press, 1997
• Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language. Random House, 1996.

Anagrams

• Essequibo

Portuguese

Verb

obsequies

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of obsequiar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of obsequiar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ob?sekjes/, [o???se.kjes]

Verb

obsequies

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of obsequiar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of obsequiar.