Noun: reliquary
| Singular | reliquary |
| Plural | reliquaries |
Sample Sentences
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“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.” [1935, Francis Beeding, “4/1”, in The Norwich Victims:]
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And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside. [2009 February 13, Holland Cotter, “To Bump Off Art as He Knew It”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like reliquary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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 (“to relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-. See: French Nouns '
reliquaire', English Nouns '
relic'.
Verbs referencing "reliquary"
Finnish Nouns
relikvaario.