funeral

Meanings

Noun

• A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
• A funeral sermon.

Adjective

• Alternative of funereal

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French funerailles ("funeral rites"), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia ("funeral rites"), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis ("having to do with a funeral"), from Latin fūnus ("funeral, death, corpse"), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- ("to die"). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus.
• Displaced native .