ossuary

English

Bones in an ossuary in the Czech Republic

Etymology

From Late Latin ossuārium (“charnel house”), from ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from compound of Latin os (“bone”) + adjectival suffix -ārius (“of, related to”).

Noun

ossuary (plural ossuaries)

A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

Translations

a place where the dead are buried

Catalan: ossera (ca) f, ossari m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 藏骨堂 (cong⁴ gwat¹ tong⁴)
Mandarin: 骨穴 (gǔxué), 藏古堂 (cánggǔtáng), 骨罐 (gǔguàn)
Classical Nahuatl: omicalli
Czech: kostnice (cs) f
Dutch: ossuarium (nl) n, knekelhuis (nl) n
Esperanto: ostejo
Finnish: ossuaari, luuhuone
French: ossuaire (fr) m
German: Beinhaus (de) n, Ossarium (de) n, Karner (de) m
Greek: οστεοφυλάκιο (el) n (osteofylákio)
Hungarian: osszuárium
Icelandic: beinabúr, beinaklefi, beinahús
Italian: ossario (it) m
Japanese: 納骨堂 (のうこつどう, nōkotsudō), 骨壷 (ja) (こつつぼ, kotsutsubo)

Latin: ossuārium n
Manx: shamyr chraueyn f
Maori: toma
Norwegian: ossuarium
Polish: karner m, ossuarium (pl) n, kostnica (pl) f
Portuguese: ossário m, ossuário m
Romanian: osuar (ro) n
Russian: оссуа́рий (ru) m (ossuárij), ко́стница (ru) f (kóstnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̀стӯрница f
Roman: kòstūrnica (sh) f
Slovak: karner m, kostnica f
Slovene: kostnica (sl)
Spanish: osario (es) m
Swedish: ossuarium (sv), benhus (sv), benurna

Anagrams

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