ossarium

English

Etymology

Latin ossārium

Noun

ossarium (plural ossaria)

1. An ossuary.

Latin

Alternative forms

• ossuārium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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
• Friulian: ossari
• Italian: ossario
• Piedmontese: ossari
• 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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ossārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsˈsa.rjum/
• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: os‧sa‧rium

Noun

ossarium n

1. Alternative form of ossuarium

Declension

Declension of ossarium

	singular	plural
nominative	ossarium	ossaria
genitive	ossarium	ossariów
dative	ossarium	ossariom
accusative	ossarium	ossaria
instrumental	ossarium	ossariami
locative	ossarium	ossariach
vocative	ossarium	ossaria

Further reading

• ossarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN