feretory

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A receptacle that houses relics of saints.
    — His remains were placed inside a new and rich feretory, on a platform behind the high altar.
  2. An area of a church where relics are kept.

词形变化

feretories plural feretry alternative

词源

From Middle English feretory, fertre, feretre, et al., from Anglo-Norman fertre, from Latin feretrum (“bier, funeral litter”), from Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron), from the verb φέρω (phérō, “to carry”). Doublet of feretrum.
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