columnarium

columnarium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin columna
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -ārius
Latin -ārium
Latin columnārium

    From columna (“pillar”) + -ārium.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    columnārium n (genitive columnāriī or columnārī); second declension

    1. a tax on pillars in buildings

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    singular plural
    nominative columnārium columnāria
    genitive columnāriī
    columnārī1     		columnāriōrum
    dative columnāriō columnāriīs
    accusative columnārium columnāria
    ablative columnāriō columnāriīs
    vocative columnārium columnāria

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

    References

    • “columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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