ossarium

English

Etymology

Latin ossārium

Noun

ossarium (plural ossaria)

1. An ossuary.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• ossuārium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /osˈsaː.ri.um/, [ɔs̠ˈs̠äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /osˈsa.ri.um/, [osˈsäːrium]

Noun

ossārium n (genitive ossāriī or ossārī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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
• Italian: ossario
• 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