ossuaire

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin ossuārium (“charnel house”), from ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from compound of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin os (“bone”) + adjectival suffix -ārius (“of, related to”).

Noun

ossuaire m (plural ossuaires)

1. ossuary

Further reading

• “ossuaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.