[ 'sɛp(ə)lkə ]
( US sepulcher )
■ noun a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
■ verb chiefly literary lay or bury in or as if in a ~.
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'.