crematorium

See also: crématorium

English

An old photograph of a crematorium in Oslo, Norway

Etymology

From New Latin crematorium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹɛməˈtɔːɹɪəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹɛməˈtɔːɹɪəm/, /kɹiːməˈtɔːɹi.əm/

Noun

crematorium (plural crematoriums or crematoria)

1. A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.

Related terms

• cremate
• cremation
• crematory

 

Translations

place where dead bodies are cremated

• Arabic: مَحْرَقَة f (maḥraqa)
• Armenian: դիակիզարան (hy) (diakizaran)
• Azerbaijani: krematori
• Belarusian: крэмато́рый m (krematóryj)
• Bulgarian: кремато́риум m (krematórium)
• Catalan: crematori m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火葬場／火葬场 (zh) (huǒzàngchǎng)

• Czech: krematorium (cs) n
• Danish: krematorium (da) n, krematorie (da) n
• Dutch: crematorium (nl) n
• Esperanto: kremaciejo
• Estonian: krematoorium
• Finnish: krematorio (fi)
• French: crématorium (fr) m
• Georgian: კრემატორიუმი (ḳremaṭoriumi)
• German: Krematorium (de) n
• Greek: κρεματόριο (el) (krematório)

  Ancient: καῦστρα f (kaûstra)

• Hebrew: משרפה \ מִשׂרָפָה (he) f (misrafá)
• Hungarian: krematórium (hu)
• Ido: kremaceyo
• Italian: crematorio (it) m
• Japanese: 火葬場 (ja) (かそうば, kasōba), 焼き場 (ja) (やきば, yakiba)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 화장장(火葬場) (hwajangjang)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: ustrīna f
• Latvian: krematorija f
• Lithuanian: krematoriumas m
• Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦕᧁᦕᦲ (hongṗhawṗhii)
• Macedonian: крематориум m (krematorium)
• Maori: whare whakapungarehu, whare tahu tūpāpaku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krematorium n

  Nynorsk: krematorium n

• Occitan: crematòri m
• Persian: مرده‌سوزخانه
• Polish: krematorium (pl) n
• Portuguese: crematório m
• Romanian: crematoriu (ro)
• Russian: кремато́рий (ru) m (krematórij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крематоријум m, крема̀то̄рӣј m

  Roman: krematorijum m, kremàtōrīj (sh) m

• Slovak: krematórium n
• Slovene: krematorij m
• Spanish: crematorio m
• Swedish: krematorium (sv) n
• Thai: ที่เผาศพ (têe păo sòp), ฌาปนสถาน (th) (chaa-bpà-ná-sà-tǎan), สุสาน (th) (sù-sǎan)
• Tibetan: པུར་ཁང (pur khang)
• Turkish: yakmalık (tr), krematoryum (tr)
• Ukrainian: кремато́рій (uk) m (krematórij)
• Vietnamese: lò thiêu, lò thiêu xác, nơi hoả táng
• Volapük: filasepülöp

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkreː.maːˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
• Hyphenation: cre‧ma‧to‧ri‧um

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -oːriʏm

Noun

crematorium n (plural crematoria or crematoriums, diminutive crematoriumpje n)

1. A crematorium, a crematory.
   • 1876 November 23, “Crematie”, in Java-bode, volume 25, number 277, page 3:

     De afgevaardigden naar Dresden, dr. Egeling en dr. Hoogewerff, brachten verslag uit van het aldaar gehouden kongres; daarbij werden overgelegd eenige exemplaren van de stenographische verhandelingen van het 'kongres, photographieën van teekeningen en plannen voor een groot crematorium van de ingenieur Pieper en den architekt Lilienthal, en van den Siemenschen oven, en Beilagen v. d. Augsburgschen Allgem. Zeitung waarin de redevoeringen van prof. Kinkel is^[sic] opgenomen.

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Descendants

• → Indonesian: krèmatorium

Latin

Etymology

cremō +‎ -tōrium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre.maːˈtoː.ri.um/, [krɛmäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre.maˈto.ri.um/, [kremäˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

cremātōrium n (genitive cremātōriī or cremātōrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) crematorium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cremātōrium	cremātōria
Genitive	cremātōriī cremātōrī1	cremātōriōrum
Dative	cremātōriō	cremātōriīs
Accusative	cremātōrium	cremātōria
Ablative	cremātōriō	cremātōriīs
Vocative	cremātōrium	cremātōria

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