ensevelir

From en- + Old French sevelir, from Latin sepelīre, presumably via Vulgar Latin sepellīre.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.sə.v(ə).liʁ/

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ensevelir

1. (transitive) to bury, to entomb
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Elle se fit faire un tableau funèbre avec les cheveux de la défunte, et, dans une lettre qu'elle envoyait aux Bertaux, toute pleine de réflexions tristes sur la vie, elle demandait qu'on l'ensevelît plus tard dans le même tombeau.

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2. (transitive) to cover with earth
3. (transitive, figuratively) to bury (hide something)
4. (pronominal) to bury oneself, hide away

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• ensevelissement

• sépulture

• enfouir

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

From en- +‎ sevelir.

ensevelir

1. to bury; to inter; to inhume

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: ensevelir
  • French: ensevelir