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- Latin · borrowed frominhumātus
- English todayinhumate
First attested in 1612; borrowed from Latin inhumātus, perfect passive participle of inhumō (“to put in the earth, plant; (Ecclesiastical Latin) to inhume”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + humō (“to cover with earth”). Doublet of inhume.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.