cinerary

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Used to hold the ashes of a dead person after cremation

adjective
/ˈsɪnəˌrɛri/

: cenicero

The museum exhibited a collection of ancient cinerary jars used for cremated remains.

Examples

The artist created a beautiful cinerary urn to honor her late grandmother.
There is also a later fragment of a cinerary vase with the inscription "Karnea"; see Hiller von Gaertringen, ibid., 167, no. 845.

Academic text (2014)
The retort was an elaborately designed, computerized machine that recycled cinerary vapor through a series of funnels and, in the end, the only thing left was heat, not smoke.

Academic text (2007)
During the ceremony, family members placed flowers around the cinerary vessel containing their loved one's ashes.

Surface Forms

cinerary positive

Morphology

cinerary = ash (opaque) = ciner + ary

Although the word relates to 'ashes', the combining form 'ciner-' is not a recognizable English base for most learners, so the derivation is not transparently guessable.

Etymology

Cinerary comes from the Latin root cinis meaning 'ashes', the same root you can see in the English word cinder. So a cinerary urn or box is one made to hold a person's ashes after cremation.