reliquary

Meaning

1. A container to hold or display religious relics.
2. (figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
3. A person who owes a balance.

Synonyms

shrine

church

⛪

recess

tabernacle

sacred place

Translations

reliquaire

reliquiario

relicario

reliquiari

Reliquiar

relicário

λειψανοθήκη

Reliquienschrein

reliekhouder

teca

reliquiarium

kutsal emanetlerin saklandığı sandık

reliquier

châsse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛlɪkwɛɹi/

Etymology

Cognate with French: reliquaire

Cognate with English: relic

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“I relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“I leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.