exsequia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor

Proto-Italic *sekʷōr

Latin sequor

Latin exsequor

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

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Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)influ.

Latin -ia

Latin exsequia

From exsequor + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛksˈsɛ.kʷi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eksˈsɛː.kʷi.a]

Noun

exsequia f (genitive exsequiae); first declension

1. (in the plural) funeral procession

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exsequia	exsequiae
genitive	exsequiae	exsequiārum
dative	exsequiae	exsequiīs
accusative	exsequiam	exsequiās
ablative	exsequiā	exsequiīs
vocative	exsequia	exsequiae

Descendants

• English: exequy
• Italian: esequie
• Portuguese: exéquias
• Spanish: exequias

References

• “exsĕquĭae (exequ-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exsequia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to attend a person's funeral: exsequias alicuius funeris prosequi
    
  • (ambiguous) to celebrate the obsequies: funus or exsequias celebrare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be deprived of the rites of burial: iustis exsequiarum carere