ossarium

From Latin ossārium.

ossarium (plural ossaria)

1. An ossuary.

• ossuārium

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /osˈsaː.ri.um/, [ɔs̠ˈs̠äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /osˈsa.ri.um/, [osˈsäːrium]

ossārium n (genitive ossāriī or ossārī); second declension

1. Alternative form of ossuārium ("ossuary").

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “ossarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ossarium 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)
• ossarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ossarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

 

Learned borrowing from Latin ossārium.

• IPA^(key): /ɔsˈsa.rjum/
• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: os‧sa‧rium

ossarium n

1. ossuary (container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead)

   Synonyms: kostnica, ossuarium

• ossarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN