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encoffin en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English coffin English encoffin From en- + coffin.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
    • The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
encoffins Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
encoffined Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
encoffined Tense=Past lexicographic
encoffining Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

encoffiner · encoffinment

Translations (5)

fi laittaa arkkuun (place in a coffin) · fi sulkea arkkuun (place in a coffin) · cmn 裝殮 /装殓 (place in a coffin) · ja 納棺する (place in a coffin) · fi panna arkkuun (place in a coffin)