Bones in an ossuary in the Czech Republic
From Late Latin ossuārium (“charnel house”), from ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from compound of Latin os (“bone”) + adjectival suffix -ārius (“of, related to”).
ossuary (plural ossuaries)
- A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
a place where the dead are buried
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: արկղ (arkł)
- Bulgarian: костница f (kostnica)
- Catalan: ossera (ca) f, ossari (ca) 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 (fi), luuhuone
- French: ossuaire (fr) m
- Friulian: ossari m
- German: Beinhaus (de) n, Ossarium (de) n, Karner (de) m
- Greek: οστεοφυλάκιο (el) n (osteofylákio)
- Hungarian: osszuárium
- Icelandic: beinabúr, beinaklefi, beinahús
- Indonesian: osuari
- Italian: ossario (it) m
- Japanese: 納骨堂 (のうこつどう, nōkotsudō), 骨壷 (ja) (こつつぼ, kotsutsubo)
- Kapampangan: osuariu (traditional), oswaryu (modern), balebutul
- Latin: ossuārium n
- Macedonian: косту́рница f (kostúrnica)
- Manx: shamyr chraueyn f
- Maori: toma
- Norwegian: ossuarium
- Polish: ossarium n, ossuarium (pl) n
- 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
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