urn

Εννοια (English)

1. A vase with a footed base.
2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
4. Any place of burial; the grave.
5. A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
6. A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

funerary urn

earthen jar

burial urn

coffee urn

funeral urn

water pot

mortuary urn

Συχνότητα

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ɜːn/

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”).

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