ossuarium
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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
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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 |
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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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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
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin ossuārium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ossuarium n
Declension edit
Declension of ossuarium
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ossuarium | ossuaria |
genitive | ossuarium | ossuariów |
dative | ossuarium | ossuariom |
accusative | ossuarium | ossuaria |
instrumental | ossuarium | ossuariami |
locative | ossuarium | ossuariach |
vocative | ossuarium | ossuaria |