tanatopraxia
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.na.to.pɾakˈsi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.na.to.pɾakˈsi.a/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɐ.nɐ.tu.pɾɐˈksi.ɐ/
- Hyphenation: ta‧na‧to‧pra‧xi‧a
Noun
tanatopraxia f (plural tanatopraxias)
- embalming
- Synonym: somatoconservação
Further reading
- “tanatopraxia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Noun
tanatopraxia f (plural tanatopraxias)
Further reading
- “tanatopraxia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025