enterrer

to bury (put underground); to inter; to ditch, to bury (a plan, a memory, a legislative proposal, etc.); to outlive, to survive (someone); to hide; to enjoy something before it is gone

“Là, un jour, Geneviève est morte. Et ils ont parti l’enterrer.” — Then one day, Geneviève died. And they left to bury her.

Inherited from Middle French enterrer, from Old French enterrer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put into earth”), from Latin terra. Equivalent to en- (“into”) + terre (“earth”) + -er (infinitive marker). Cognate with English inter.