kostnica
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Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
kostnica f
- mortuary, morgue, deadhouse (room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, now particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts)
- Synonym: (colloquial) trupiarnia
- Hypernym: chłodnia
- ossuary (building for holding the bones of the dead)
Declension
Declension of kostnica
Further reading
- kostnica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kostnica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- kostnica in PWN's encyclopedia
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
kọ̑stnica f
- ossuary (a place where the dead are buried)
Inflection
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Feminine, a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | kóstnica | ||
| gen. sing. | kóstnice | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
kóstnica | kóstnici | kóstnice |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
kóstnice | kóstnic | kóstnic |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
kóstnici | kóstnicama | kóstnicam |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
kóstnico | kóstnici | kóstnice |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
kóstnici | kóstnicah | kóstnicah |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
kóstnico | kóstnicama | kóstnicami |
Further reading
- “kostnica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024