obituary

Meanings

Noun

• A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
• A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.
• A register of deaths in a monastery.

Adjective

• Relating to the death of a person.

Origin

• From Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus ("a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death"), from obeo, from ob + eo.