columnarium

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Latin

Etymology

columna (“pillar”) +‎ -ārium

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.lumˈnaː.ri.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.lumˈna.ri.um/,

Noun

columnārium n (genitive columnāriī or columnārī); second declension

a tax on pillars in buildings

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	columnārium	columnāria
genitive	columnāriī columnārī¹	columnāriōrum
dative	columnāriō	columnāriīs
accusative	columnārium	columnāria
ablative	columnāriō	columnāriīs
vocative	columnārium	columnāria

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

References

“columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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