"mortuary" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈmɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/ [General-American], /ˈmɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-mortuary.wav
Etymology: From Middle English mortuary, from Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead”), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“to die”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{inh|en|enm|mortuary}} Middle English mortuary, {{der|en|xno|mortuarie||gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner}} Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), {{der|en|ML.|mortuārium||receptacle for the dead; mortuary}} Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), {{der|en|la|mortuus}} Latin mortuus Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} mortuary (not comparable)
  1. Of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Funeral Derived forms: mortuary sword
    Sense id: en-mortuary-en-adj-XLxKoLom Disambiguation of Funeral: 45 48 7

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/ [General-American], /ˈmɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-mortuary.wav Forms: mortuaries [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English mortuary, from Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead”), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“to die”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{inh|en|enm|mortuary}} Middle English mortuary, {{der|en|xno|mortuarie||gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner}} Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), {{der|en|ML.|mortuārium||receptacle for the dead; mortuary}} Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), {{der|en|la|mortuus}} Latin mortuus Head templates: {{en-noun}} mortuary (plural mortuaries)
  1. A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home. Categories (topical): Funeral Related terms (room in a mortuary where corpses are placed under a rinsing shower): lavatory
    Sense id: en-mortuary-en-noun-eF4g1JTH Disambiguation of Funeral: 45 48 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 49 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 52 37 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 53 37 Disambiguation of 'room in a mortuary where corpses are placed under a rinsing shower': 66 34
  2. (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. Tags: historical Synonyms: soulscot
    Sense id: en-mortuary-en-noun--FNuD8Lm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mortuary pole, mortuary science Related terms: mortician, soulscot

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.