morgue

Significat (Anglès)

1. (archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
3. (archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Conceptes

tanatori

dipòsit de cadàvers

Sinònims

mortuary

dead room

charnel

haughtiness

deadhouse

arrogance

dead-house

charnel house

funeral home

Traduccions

morgue

obitorio

Leichenschauhaus

necrotério

morgue

νεκροτομείο

camera mortuaria

Leichenhaus

morg

νεκροθάλαμος

depósito de cadáveres

mortuarium

morgue

depósito

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/mɔːɡ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.