morgue

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

Leichenschauhaus

Leichenhaus

Leichenhalle

Leichenkammer

Begräbnis…

Leichen…

Synonyme

mortuary

dead room

charnel

haughtiness

deadhouse

arrogance

dead-house

charnel house

funeral home

Übersetzungen

morgue

obitorio

necrotério

morgue

νεκροτομείο

camera mortuaria

morg

depósito de cadáveres

νεκροθάλαμος

mortuarium

morgue

mortuarium

tanatori

depósito

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/mɔːɡ/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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.