ossarium

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English

Etymology

From Latin ossārium.

Noun

ossarium (plural ossaria)

  1. An ossuary.

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

ossārium n (genitive ossāriī or ossārī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative ossārium ossāria
genitive ossāriī
ossārī1
ossāriōrum
dative ossāriō ossāriīs
accusative ossārium ossāria
ablative ossāriō ossāriīs
vocative ossārium ossāria

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

Descendants

  • Catalan: ossari
  • Friulian: ossari
  • Italian: ossario
  • Piedmontese: ossari
  • Portuguese: ossário
  • Spanish: osario

References

  • 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

Polish

ossarium

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ossārium.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ossarium n

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

Declension

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