different between cremate vs columbarium

English

Etymology

Latin crem? (“I burn (something) to ashes; I cremate (something)”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ime?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???me?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /k???me?t/

Verb

cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)

1. (transitive) To burn something to ashes.
2. (transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

Related terms

• cremation
• crematorium

Translations

Anagrams

• ceramet, meercat

Italian

Verb

cremate

1. second-person plural present of cremare
2. second-person plural imperative of cremare

Anagrams

• certame

Latin

Verb

crem?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of crem?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columb?rium, from columba (“pigeon”) +? -?rium (“place for”).

Noun

columbarium (plural columbariums or columbaria)

1. (historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

   Synonym: dovecote
2. A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.
3. A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.

   Synonym: cinerarium
4. A niche in such a building for housing urns.

Translations

Further reading

• columbarium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columb?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?.l?m?ba?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: col?lum?ba?ri?um

Noun

columbarium n (plural columbaria or columbariums)

1. (historical) vault for funerary urns, columbarium
2. dovecote, columbarium

   Synonyms: duivenhuis, duiventil

Latin

Etymology

From columba (“dove”) +? -?rium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.lum?ba?.ri.um/, [k????m?bä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.lum?ba.ri.um/, [k?lum?b???ium]

Noun

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

1. dovecote
2. in architecture, a hole for a horizontal member such as a joist or rafter; a gain or mortise
3. a hole in the side of a waterwheel near its axle, where the water lifted by the wheel exits
4. nautically, an opening for oars in the side of a vessel
5. in burial, an underground chamber for interring cremated remains, with niches for the urns of ashes

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• columbarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• columbarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• columbarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• columbarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin