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necrological

necrological

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About death, funeral customs, or notices about dead people
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɛkrəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
: necrológico
  • The ceremony included several necrological traditions passed down through generations.

Examples

  • The necrological report detailed the causes of death for each individual.

  • A necrological study revealed much about the society's attitudes toward death.

  • The historian gave a necrological account of the burial customs of ancient civilizations.

  • He studied necrological trends in urban populations.

  • The necrological report provided detailed information about the lives of those who had recently passed away.

  • The newspaper published a necrological section that included the obituaries of the local community.

  • As part of her research, she studied necrological records to understand the trends in mortality rates.

Surface Forms

necrological positive

Morphology

necrological = necrology (semi-transparent) = necrology + ical

Formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-ical' to the noun 'necrology', but 'necrology' and the combining form 'necro-' are relatively technical and may be unfamiliar to many learners.

Etymology

Necrological comes from the Greek part necro- meaning 'dead' and the part -logical, like in biology, meaning 'study'. So necrological refers to things about death, such as obituaries or the study and record of deaths.