reliquary

English

WOTD – 19 July 2012

WOTD – 19 July 2014

Etymology

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-.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛlɪkwɛɹi/, /ˈɹɛlɪkwəɹi/

Noun

reliquary (plural reliquaries)

1. A container to hold or display religious relics.
2. (figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.

Related terms

• relic

Translations

container for religious relics

• Catalan: reliquiari m
• Czech: relikviář m
• Dutch: reliekhouder m
• Esperanto: relikvujo
• Finnish: pyhäinjäännöslipas, relikvaario (fi)
• French: reliquaire (fr) m
• German: Reliquienschrein m, Reliquiar (de) n
• Greek: λειψανοθήκη (el) f (leipsanothíki)
• Icelandic: helgiskrín n
• Irish: taiseagán m, cathach m or f (battle reliquary)

  Old Irish: cathach f

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• Italian: reliquiario m
• Polish: relikwiarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: relicário (pt) m
• Romanian: relicvariu (ro) n
• Russian: реликва́рий (ru) m (relikvárij)
• Spanish: relicario (es) m
• Thai: ธาตุ (th) (that)
• Volapük: relikidininädian (vo)