ossuary

English

Bones in an ossuary in the Czech Republic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒsjʊəɹi/

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Noun

ossuary (plural ossuaries)

1. A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

Translations

a place where the dead are buried

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: արկղ (arkł)

• Bulgarian: костница f (kostnica)
• Catalan: ossera (ca) f, ossari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 藏骨堂 (cong⁴ gwat¹ tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 骨穴 (gǔxué), 藏古堂 (cánggǔtáng), 骨罐 (gǔguàn)

• Classical Nahuatl: omicalli
• Czech: kostnice (cs) f
• Dutch: ossuarium (nl) n, knekelhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: ostejo
• Finnish: ossuaari (fi), luuhuone
• French: ossuaire (fr) m
• German: Beinhaus (de) n, Ossarium (de) n, Karner (de) m
• Greek: οστεοφυλάκιο (el) n (osteofylákio)
• Hungarian: osszuárium
• Icelandic: beinabúr, beinaklefi, beinahús
• Indonesian: osuari
• Italian: ossario (it) m
• Japanese: 納骨堂 (のうこつどう, nōkotsudō), 骨壷 (ja) (こつつぼ, kotsutsubo)
• Latin: ossuārium n
• Macedonian: косту́рница f (kostúrnica)
• Manx: shamyr chraueyn f
• Maori: toma
• Norwegian: ossuarium
• Polish: ossarium n, ossuarium (pl) n
• Portuguese: ossário m, ossuário m
• Romanian: osuar (ro) n
• Russian: оссуа́рий (ru) m (ossuárij), ко́стница (ru) f (kóstnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀стӯрница f

  Roman: kòstūrnica (sh) f

• Slovak: karner m, kostnica f
• Slovene: kostnica (sl)
• Spanish: osario (es) m
• Swedish: ossuarium (sv), benhus (sv), benurna

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