Meaning of hic jacet in English:
hic jacet
noun
literary An epitaph.
- ‘The true story of his death cannot now be known, of course. But…it is hard not to read his hic jacet as one of history's shorter suicide notes.’
Pronunciation
hic jacet
/hɪk ˈdʒeɪsɛt/ /ˈjakɛt/ Origin
Latin, ‘here lies’, the first two words of a Latin epitaph.