cinerarium

English

Etymology

Latin cinerarium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪnəˈɹɛəɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪnəˈɹɛɹi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

Noun

cinerarium (plural cinerariums or 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.

Related terms

• cinerary

See also

• bone ash
• columbarium
• ossuary
• ustrina (Latin)
• ustrina
• ustrinum

Latin

Etymology

From cinis (“cold ashes”) +‎ -ārium.

Noun

cinerārium n (genitive cinerāriī or cinerārī); second declension

1. cinerarium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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).

References

• “cinerarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cinerarium", 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)
• “cinerarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cinerarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers