Their sides present the well-known appearance of the Roman columbaria (dove-cotes), but with the important difference, that they are adapted to contain coffins instead of urns, the holes being about 2 feet square and 6 feet deep.
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Columbarium
//ˌkɒləmˈbɛəɹi.əm//
Synonyms for "columbarium" (4 found)
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47 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- περιστερεών noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Catalan
2 entries- colomar noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- columbari noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 納骨塔 /纳骨塔 noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- 靈灰閣 /灵灰阁 noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- 骨灰安置所 noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- 骨灰龕場 /骨灰龛场 noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Dutch
3 entries- columbarium noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- columbarium noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- duivenhuis noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Finnish
2 entries- kolumbaario noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- uurnaholvi noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
French
1 entries- columbarium noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
German
4 entries- Columbarium noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- Columbarium noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- Kolumbarium noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- Kolumbarium noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Greek
3 entries- κολουμβάριο noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- περιστερώνας noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- τεφροφυλάκιο noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Ido
2 entries- kolumbario noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- kolumbario noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Irish
1 entries- colmlann noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Italian
2 entries- colombario noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- colombario noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Japanese
1 entries- 納骨堂 noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Latin
1 entries- columbarium noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Persian
1 entries- کبوترخانه noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Polish
1 entries- kolumbarium noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Portuguese
3 entries- columbário noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- columbário noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- pombal noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Romanian
2 entries- columbar noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- porumbar noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Russian
2 entries- голубя́тня noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- колумба́рий noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Spanish
2 entries- columbario noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
- palomar noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
Swedish
2 entries- duvslag noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- kolumbarium noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Turkish
1 entries- kolumbaryum noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Ukrainian
2 entries- голубни́к noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
- колумба́рій noun (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns)
Welsh
1 entries- colomendy noun (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves)
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Doves were culticly protected; great towers were built for them in which they could nest; they were called columbaria (columba is the Latin word for dove).
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Fish ponds were stocked with netted fish during the summer as a source of protein and dove cotes, or as the Romans called them, 'columbariums', were another.
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We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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