enterrés

Enterrés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb enterrer, meaning buried or interred. When used as an adjective, enterrés describes objects or bodies placed in the ground, as in corps enterrés or restes enterrés. In sentences, it can function as a passive past participle or as a substantive phrase “les enterrés,” referring to those who have been interred; the expression appears in historical records, cemetery inventories, and literary texts.

Etymology and usage: The term derives from enterrer, from Old French, with a sense connected to placing into the earth. The form enterrés agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies.

Contexts: In archaeology and anthropology, enterrés denotes individuals whose remains have been buried. In religious and cultural contexts, burial rites produce enterrés. In journalism and historical writing, the phrase can denote victims or casualties who have been interred. In literature and film, enterrés is used to evoke themes of death, memory, and mortality.

See also: Burial, interment, cemetery, funerary rites.