ossuarium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ossuarium (plural ossuariums or ossuaria)
- A charnel house; an ossuary.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Walpole to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ossuarium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from ossua (“bones”) + -ārius, alternative form of os (“bone”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ossuārium n (genitive ossuāriī); second declension
- A receptacle for the bones of the dead, charnel house, ossuary
Inflection[edit]
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ossuārium | ossuāria |
| genitive | ossuāriī | ossuāriōrum |
| dative | ossuāriō | ossuāriīs |
| accusative | ossuārium | ossuāria |
| ablative | ossuāriō | ossuāriīs |
| vocative | ossuārium | ossuāria |
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References[edit]
- ossuarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “ossuarium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “ossuarium” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
Polish[edit]
Noun[edit]
ossuarium n
Declension[edit]
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