charnel
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French charnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman charner, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
Noun
charnel (plural charnels)
- A chapel attached to a mortuary.
- A repository for dead bodies.
Adjective
charnel (comparative more charnel, superlative most charnel)
- Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- He murmured to himself with dull despair,
- Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
References
- OED2
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French charnel, from Old French charnel, inherited from Latin carnālis. Also analysable as a derivative of Old French charn (→ Modern French chair) + -el.
Pronunciation
Adjective
charnel (feminine charnelle, masculine plural charnels, feminine plural charnelles)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “charnel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Adjective
charnel m (feminine singular charnelle, masculine plural charnels, feminine plural charnelles)
- carnal (relating to flesh)
- carnal; corporal; bodily
- carnal (relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites)
Descendants
- French: charnel
References
- charnel on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (charnel, supplement)
Old French
Etymology
Adjective
charnel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular charnel)
Declension
Descendants
- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)nəl
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English adjectives
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms suffixed with -el
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French adjectives
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives