ossuarium

From Latin ossuarium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒs.juˈɛəɹ.i.əm/

ossuarium (plural ossuariums or ossuaria)

1. A charnel house; an ossuary.
   • 1774, Horace Walpole, Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole:

     A semicircular ossuarium

“ossuarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ossārium

From ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from ossua (“bones”) + -ārius, alternative form of os (“bone”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔs.suˈaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [os.suˈaː.ri.um]

ossuārium n (genitive ossuāriī or ossuārī); second declension

1. A receptacle for the bones of the dead, charnel house, ossuary

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• English: ossuary
• French: ossuaire
• Portuguese: ossuário
• Romanian: osuar

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin ossuārium.

• IPA^(key): /ɔs.suˈa.rjum/

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• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: os‧su‧a‧rium

ossuarium n

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

   Synonyms: kostnica, ossarium

• ossuarium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ossuarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN