cinerarium

1. 1.

   a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead

   Synonymscolumbarium

   Broaderrecess

Other forms of cinerarium

plural

cineraria

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cinerarium

What does cinerarium mean?

cinerarium means "a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead".

How many syllables are in cinerarium?

cinerarium has 5 syllables: ci-ne-ra-ri-um. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for cinerarium?

Close synonyms include columbarium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cinerarium a common word?

cinerarium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.