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CIMETIERE URNES CINERAIRES [3 records]

Record 1 2023-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Funeral Services
DEF

A structure of vaults lined with recesses for cinerary urns.

CONT

A columbarium is a structure used to store and often display urns containing cremated remains. The structure is typically a wall, room, or building that can be indoors or outdoors. A columbarium often has designated areas called niches. A niche holds the urns and has features that help remember and memorialize a loved one.

OBS

columbaria: plural

Key term(s)
  • columbaria

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pompes funèbres
CONT

Columbarium : C'est l'endroit où sont conservées les urnes cinéraires. Le columbarium est composé de plusieurs compartiments, appelés niches, se retrouvant sur un même mur ou une partie de mur. Le columbarium peut être situé au cimetière ou dans une maison funéraire. Il peut être autant intérieur qu'extérieur.

OBS

columbarium : Les formes au pluriel sont «columbariums» et «columbaria».

OBS

columbariums (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l’orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • columbariums
  • columbaria

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pompas fúnebres
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Record 2 2015-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Funeral Services
DEF

The disposal of an urn in an indoor or outdoor place above ground.

CONT

Numerous final disposition options: There are a number of options for final disposition of cremation ashes, including urn placement, scattering, burial and more.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pompes funèbres
CONT

Columbarium : infrastructure communale du cimetière réservée au placement d’urnes cinéraires contenant les cendres des défunts.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
DEF

A cemetery of individual cremation graves with remains in pottery urns, [especially] as used by North European peoples from c1200 b.c. onwards ...

Key term(s)
  • cinerary urnfield
  • urn field

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
DEF

[...] nécropole plate [...] ou légèrement tumuliforme, qui ne renferme plus la vaste chambre structurée destinée à recevoir les défunts, mais plusieurs dizaines, voire plusieurs centaines, de vases cinéraires, chacun d’eux contenant les cendres de corps incinérés.

Spanish

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