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- Latin · borrowed fromcolumbārium
- English todaycolumbarium
Borrowed from Latin columbārium, from columba (“pigeon”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
columbarium
Today it means: A columbary, especially a large and architecturally impressive one for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, such as those in ancien régime France. Full definition →
Latin columbārium