Catafalque

Definition: Catafalque

Catafalque

Noun

1. A decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral.

Date "catafalque" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Catafalque \Cat"a*falque`\, noun. [French expression, from Italian catafalco, scaffold, funeral canopy; of uncertain origin; compage to the Spanish expression catafalso, cadahalso, cadalso, Pr. casafalc, Old French chafaut. Compare to Scaffold.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Catafalque

English words defined with "catafalque": Catafalco. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Catafalque" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (catafalque).

Domain	Title
Books	The Easter Catafalque from Garamszentbenedek: In the Christian Museum of Esztergom (reference) Un catafalque pour une star : roman (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The rector would be there in a cope of black and gold and there would be tall yellow candles on the altar and round the catafalque.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Catafalque" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Catafalque" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "catafalque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kreven, katafalk. (various references)

Arabic		‏النعش منصة التابوت. (various references)

Bulgarian		катафалка (hearse). (various references)

Czech		katafalk. (various references)

Farsi		تابوت یاعماری . (various references)

French		catafalque. (various references)

German		katafalk. (various references)

Greek		κενοτάφιο (cenotaph), βάθρο φερέτρου. (various references)

Hungarian		ravatal (bier, feretory, hearse). (various references)

Indonesian		bendosa. (various references)

Italian		catafalco. (various references)

Manx		far-homman. (various references)

Pig Latin		atafalquecay

Portuguese		catafalco, carro fúnebre (bier, hearse). (various references)

Romanian		catafalc (bier). (various references)

Russian		катафалк (bier, hearse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odar, katafalk. (various references)

Spanish		catafalco. (various references)

Swedish		katafalk. (various references)

Thai		ที่ตั้งหีบศพที่มีการประ�"ับตกแต่ง. (various references)

Turkish		katafalk. (various references)

Ukranian		катафалк (hearse). (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� táng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cata-. (various references)
Italian	900-Modern	catafalco. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "catafalque": catafalques. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Catafalque" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catfalque. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-f-l-q-t-u"
	-3 letters: factual, faculae, falcate.
	-4 letters: acetal, actual, acuate, calque, claque, facula, faecal, faucal, faucet, fecula.
	-5 letters: aceta, acute, alate, aquae, cleat, cleft, culet, eclat, equal, facet, fatal, fault, fecal, fetal, flute, lutea, quale, quate.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-f-l-q-t-u"
	+1 letter: catafalques.
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