columnarium

Latin

Etymology

columna (“pillar”) +‎ -ārium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.lumˈnaː.ri.um/, [kɔɫ̪ʊmˈnäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.lumˈna.ri.um/, [kolumˈnäːrium]

Noun

columnārium n (genitive columnāriī or columnārī); second declension

1. a tax on pillars in buildings

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	columnārium	columnāria
Genitive	columnāriī columnārī1	columnāriōrum
Dative	columnāriō	columnāriīs
Accusative	columnārium	columnāria
Ablative	columnāriō	columnāriīs
Vocative	columnārium	columnāria

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

References

• “columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers