sepulchre
noun
[ ˈsɛp(ə)lkə ]
• a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
Similar:
tomb,
vault,
burial place,
burial chamber,
crypt,
catacomb,
mausoleum,
sarcophagus,
pyramid,
grave,
mastaba,
undercroft,
sepulchre
verb
• lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.
• "tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.
