cinerarium
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editcinerarium (plural cinerariums or cineraria)
- A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people.
- 1842, Charles Wellbeloved, Eburacum, or York under the Romans, page 100:
- They were called ossuaria, from their containing bones,—cineraria, in reference to their containing ashes,—or ollæ, pots; these had generally a narrow pointed bottom.
- 1881, John Henry Parker, The Via Sacra. Excavations in Rome from 1438 to 1882[1], page 156:
- On a great marble cinerarium (or vase for human ashes) is an inscription.
- 1918, William James Perry, The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia[2], page 42:
- After cremation the Khasi take the ashes of their dead to the clan cinerarium.
- 2016, Lewis H. Mates, Encyclopedia of Cremation:
- Relevant material is also covered on the containers for remains in those and in the entries on cineraria, columbaria, and urns.
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editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom cinis (“cold ashes”) + -ārium.
Noun
editcinerārium n (genitive cinerāriī or cinerārī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cinerārium | cinerāria |
Genitive | cinerāriī cinerārī1 |
cinerāriōrum |
Dative | cinerāriō | cinerāriīs |
Accusative | cinerārium | cinerāria |
Ablative | cinerāriō | cinerāriīs |
Vocative | cinerārium | cinerāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
edit- “cinerarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cinerarium 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)
- cinerarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cinerarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers