ossuarium

English

Etymology

Latin ossuarium

Noun

ossuarium (plural ossuariums or ossuaria)

1. A charnel house; an ossuary.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• ossārium

Etymology

From ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from ossua (“bones”) + -ārius, alternative form of os (“bone”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /os.suˈaː.ri.um/, [ɔs̠ːuˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /os.suˈa.ri.um/, [osːuˈäːrium]

Noun

ossuārium n (genitive ossuāriī or ossuārī); second declension

1. A receptacle for the bones of the dead, charnel house, ossuary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ossuārium	ossuāria
Genitive	ossuāriī ossuārī1	ossuāriōrum
Dative	ossuāriō	ossuāriīs
Accusative	ossuārium	ossuāria
Ablative	ossuāriō	ossuāriīs
Vocative	ossuārium	ossuāria

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

Related terms

• os
• osseus
• ossiculāris
• ossiculātim

• ossiculum
• ossifragus
• ossilāgō
• ossilegium

• ossilegus
• ossōsus
• ossuārius
• ossuōsus

Descendants

• English: ossuary
• French: ossuaire
• Portuguese: ossuário

References

• “ossuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ossuarium 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)
• ossuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Polish

ossuarium

Noun

ossuarium n

1. ossuary

Declension

Declension of ossuarium

	singular	plural
nominative	ossuarium	ossuaria
genitive	ossuarium	ossuariów
dative	ossuarium	ossuariom
accusative	ossuarium	ossuaria
instrumental	ossuarium	ossuariami
locative	ossuarium	ossuariach
vocative	ossuarium	ossuaria