ossuarium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ossuarium (plural ossuariums or ossuaria)
- A charnel house; an ossuary.
- 1774, Horace Walpole, Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole:
- A semicircular ossuarium
References[edit]
“ossuarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from ossua (“bones”) + -ārius, alternative form of os (“bone”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /os.suˈaː.ri.um/, [ɔs̠ːuˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /os.suˈa.ri.um/, [osːuˈäːrium]
Noun[edit]
ossuārium n (genitive ossuāriī or ossuārī); second declension
- A receptacle for the bones of the dead, charnel house, ossuary
Declension[edit]
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).
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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.
Polish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ossuārium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ossuarium n
Declension[edit]
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 |
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