reliquary

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• /ˈɹɛlɪ(ˌ)kwɛɹi/
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• /ˈɹɛlɪkwəɹi/
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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 *leikw-.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: мощехранителница (moštehranitelnica) — container for religious relics
• Catalan: reliquiari — container for religious relics
• Chinese Mandarin: 聖物箱 /圣物箱 (shèngwùxiāng) — container for religious relics
• Czech: relikviář — container for religious relics
• Dutch: reliekhouder — container for religious relics
• Esperanto: relikvujo — container for religious relics
• Finnish: pyhäinjäännöslipas — container for religious relics
• Finnish: relikvaario — container for religious relics
• French: reliquaire — container for religious relics
• Galician: cubela — container for religious relics
• Galician: firmal — container for religious relics
• German: Reliquienschrein — container for religious relics
• German: Reliquiar — container for religious relics
• Greek: λειψανοθήκη (leipsanothíki) — container for religious relics
• Hungarian: ereklyetartó — container for religious relics
• Icelandic: helgiskrín — container for religious relics
• Irish: taiseagán — container for religious relics
• Irish: cathach — container for religious relics
• Old Irish: cathach — container for religious relics
• Italian: reliquiario — container for religious relics
• Italian: lipsanoteca — container for religious relics
• Manx: coodagh taaishnys — container for religious relics
• Polish: relikwiarz — container for religious relics
• Portuguese: relicário — container for religious relics
• Romanian: relicvariu — container for religious relics
• Russian: реликва́рий (relikvárij) — container for religious relics
• Russian: мощевик (moščevik) — container for religious relics
• Spanish: relicario — container for religious relics
• Swedish: relikskrin — container for religious relics
• Swedish: relikvarium — container for religious relics
• Thai: ธาตุ (tâat) — container for religious relics
• Turkish: röliker — container for religious relics
• Ukrainian: реліква́рій (relikvárij) — container for religious relics
• Volapük: relikidininädian — container for religious relics