ossuarium
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ossuarium (plural ossuariums or ossuaria)
- A charnel house; an ossuary.
- 1774, Horace Walpole, Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole:
- A semicircular ossuarium
References
[edit]“ossuarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from ossua (“bones”) + -ārius, alternative form of os (“bone”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /os.suˈaː.ri.um/, [ɔs̠ːuˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /os.suˈa.ri.um/, [osːuˈäːrium]
Noun
[edit]ossuārium n (genitive ossuāriī or ossuārī); second declension
- A receptacle for the bones of the dead, charnel house, ossuary
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ossuārium | ossuāria |
genitive | ossuāriī ossuārī1 |
ossuāriōrum |
dative | ossuāriō | ossuāriīs |
accusative | ossuārium | ossuāria |
ablative | ossuāriō | ossuāriīs |
vocative | ossuārium | ossuāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ossuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ossuarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ossuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin ossuārium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ossuarium n
- ossuary (container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ossuarium
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ossuarium | ossuaria |
genitive | ossuarium | ossuariów |
dative | ossuarium | ossuariom |
accusative | ossuarium | ossuaria |
instrumental | ossuarium | ossuariami |
locative | ossuarium | ossuariach |
vocative | ossuarium | ossuaria |
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