different between cinerarium vs crypt

English

Etymology

Latin cinerarium.

Noun

cinerarium (plural cineraria)

1. A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people.

Related terms

• cinerary

See also

• columbarium

Latin

Etymology

From cinis (“cold ashes”) +? -?rium.

Noun

ciner?rium n (genitive ciner?ri? or ciner?r?); second declension

1. cinerarium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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, 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

English

Etymology

From Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Noun

crypt (plural crypts)

1. (now rare) A cave or cavern. [from 15th c.]
2. An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. [from 16th c.]
3. (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. [from 19th c.]
   • 2015, David Shaw, translating Giulia Enders, Gut, Scribe 2016, p. 25:

     Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.

Derived terms

• crypt of Lieberkühn
• hemicrypt

Translations

See also

• encrypt

References

• crypt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia