cinerarium

English

Etymology

Latin cinerarium.

Noun

cinerarium (plural cineraria)

  1. 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, page 156:
      On a great marble cinerarium (or vase for human ashes) is an inscription.
    • 1918, William James Perry, The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia, 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.

See also


Latin

Etymology

From cinis (cold ashes) + -ārium.

Noun

cinerārium n (genitive cinerāriī or cinerārī); second declension

  1. cinerarium

Declension

Second declension.

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).

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