vespillo

Etymology

From Latin vespillo.

vespillo means one who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

Why this word is great

VESPILLO — [Noun] In ancient Rome, a person who carried the bodies of the poor for burial at night. A borrowing from the Latin vespillo, of uncertain origin, though possibly related to vesper ("evening") due to the nocturnal nature of the task. Unlike an undertaker, who orchestrates the formalities of death by daylight, or a pollinctor, who anoints and prepares the corpse, the vespillo was the shadow-hauler of final obscurity. His work was the scrape of a cheap wooden bier on cobblestones, the single torch guttering in the damp tunnel of the necropolis, and the anonymous weight slumped against a shoulder that will ache until dawn—the ghost of civic obligation, performing its furtive charity under a cloak of stars.

noun

One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.“Like vespilloes or gravemakers.”
A wasp from the genus Vespillo in the family Vespidae.