"reliquary" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɛlɪkwɛɹi/, /ˈɹɛlɪkwəɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-reliquary.wav Forms: reliquaries [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“I relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“I leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|reliquaire}} Middle French reliquaire, {{cog|fr|reliquaire}} French reliquaire, {{der|en|LL.|reliquiarium}} Late Latin reliquiarium, {{cog|en|relic}} English relic, {{der|en|ine-pro|*leikʷ-}} Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ- Head templates: {{en-noun}} reliquary (plural reliquaries)
  1. A container to hold or display religious relics. Categories (topical): Containers Translations (container for religious relics): мощехранителница (moštehranitelnica) [feminine] (Bulgarian), reliquiari [masculine] (Catalan), relikviář [masculine] (Czech), reliekhouder [masculine] (Dutch), relikvujo (Esperanto), pyhäinjäännöslipas (Finnish), relikvaario (Finnish), reliquaire [masculine] (French), cubela [feminine] (Galician), firmal [masculine] (Galician), Reliquienschrein [masculine] (German), Reliquiar [neuter] (German), λειψανοθήκη (leipsanothíki) [feminine] (Greek), ereklyetartó (Hungarian), helgiskrín [neuter] (Icelandic), taiseagán [masculine] (Irish), cathach (english: battle reliquary) [feminine, masculine] (Irish), reliquiario [masculine] (Italian), lipsanoteca [feminine] (Italian), coodagh taaishnys [masculine] (Manx), cathach [feminine] (Old Irish), relikwiarz [masculine] (Polish), relicário [masculine] (Portuguese), relicvariu [neuter] (Romanian), реликва́рий (relikvárij) [masculine] (Russian), relicario [masculine] (Spanish), relikskrin [neuter] (Swedish), relikvarium [neuter] (Swedish), ธาตุ (tâat) (Thai), röliker (Turkish), реліква́рій (relikvárij) [masculine] (Ukrainian), relikidininädian (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-reliquary-en-noun-Pazlt~tu Disambiguation of Containers: 81 9 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Manx translations, Terms with Old Irish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Volapük translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 9 37 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 20 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 14 36 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 72 13 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 64 17 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 73 13 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 66 16 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 68 15 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 71 14 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 60 21 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 71 14 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Manx translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Old Irish translations: 59 21 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 59 21 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 71 14 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 78 10 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 62 20 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 62 20 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 60 21 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Volapük translations: 70 14 15 Disambiguation of 'container for religious relics': 92 4 4
  2. (figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-reliquary-en-noun-GOlrgYgd
  3. (law) A person who owes a balance. Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-reliquary-en-noun-xf3-ZRL2 Categories (other): Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Thai translations Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 33 11 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 40 10 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 33 11 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 32 11 56 Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: relic

Inflected forms

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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "reliquaire"
      },
      "expansion": "French reliquaire",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "reliquiarium"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin reliquiarium",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "relic"
      },
      "expansion": "English relic",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leikʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“I relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“I leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reliquaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "reliquary (plural reliquaries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "relic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1935, Francis Beeding, “4/1”, in The Norwich Victims:",
          "text": "“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 13, Holland Cotter, “To Bump Off Art as He Knew It”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A container to hold or display religious relics."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "relic",
          "relic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An object that sustains the memory of past people or events."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who owes a balance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "owe",
          "owe"
        ],
        [
          "balance",
          "balance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) A person who owes a balance."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɛlɪkwɛɹi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɛlɪkwəɹi/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "moštehranitelnica",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мощехранителница"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reliquiari"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relikviář"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reliekhouder"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "relikvujo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "pyhäinjäännöslipas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "relikvaario"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reliquaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cubela"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "firmal"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Reliquienschrein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Reliquiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "leipsanothíki",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λειψανοθήκη"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "ereklyetartó"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "helgiskrín"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taiseagán"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "english": "battle reliquary",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cathach"
    },
    {
      "code": "sga",
      "lang": "Old Irish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cathach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reliquiario"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lipsanoteca"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coodagh taaishnys"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relikwiarz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relicário"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "relicvariu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "relikvárij",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "реликва́рий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relicario"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "relikskrin"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "relikvarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tâat",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "ธาตุ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "röliker"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "relikvárij",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "реліква́рій"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "container for religious relics",
      "word": "relikidininädian"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "reliquary"
  ],
  "word": "reliquary"
}

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