urna

See also: urnă and urną

English

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urna

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ūrṇā, “wool, thread”).

Noun

urna (plural urnas)

1. (Buddhism) A spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark.
   • 1901, Isaac Groneman, translated by A. Dolk, The Hindu Ruins in the Plain of Parambanan‎, translation of original in Dutch:

     The urna is not worn by all, nor the monastic dress of the magnificent image of the Buddhistic prince on the right side of the great Buddha in the chanḍi Mĕndut.

   • 1916, “Notes on Chinese statuary”, in The Museum Journal‎, volume 7, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, page 156:

     The ûrna or mark upon the forehead and the long pierced ear lobes so generally characteristic of Buddhist images are not present in this instance.

   • 2009, David Reed, The Rough Guide to Nepal‎, page 107:

     Between the eyes is a curl of hair (urna), one of the identifying features of a Buddha, and the thing that looks like a nose is a miraculous light emanating from the urna (it can also be interpreted as the Nepali figure “one”, conveying the unity of all things).

Translations

dot

Burmese: ဥဏ္ဏလုံ (my) (unna.lum), ဥဏ္ဏလုံမွေးရှင် (my) (unna.lummwe:hrang) Chinese: Mandarin: 白毫 (zh) (báiháo) Japanese: 白毫 (ja) (びゃくごう, byakugō) Korean: 백호 (baekho) Pali: uṇṇa Sanskrit: ऊर्णा (sa) (ūrṇā) Thai: อุณาโลม (th) Tibetan: མཛོད་སྦུས་ (mdzod sbus) Vietnamese: bạch mao tướng

Etymology 2

From Latin urna. Doublet of urn.

Noun

urna (plural urnas or urnae)

1. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 40 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 13 L although differing slightly over time.
   • 1810, A Description of the Collection of Ancient Terracottas of the British Museum‎, British Museum, No. XXXIX, page 22:

     A wine vessel, probably the Roman urna, which contained half the quantity of the amphora.

   • 1847, Francis Adams, The Seven Books of Paulus Ægeineta‎, volume 3, The Sydenham Society, page 623:

     The congius was the 8th part of the amphora, and the 4th of the urna: it contained 6 sextarii.

   • 1903, Sir Charles Warren, The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures‎, page 89:

     It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

Synonyms

• urn, half-amphora

Coordinate terms

• (unit of liquid volume): lingula (1/1152 urna), cyathus (1/288 urna), acetabulum (1/192 urna), quartarius (1/96 urna), hemina (1/48 urna), sextarius (1/24 urna), congius (¼ urna), amphora (2 urnas), culeus (40 urnas)

Anagrams

• ruan, Ruan, naur, Arun, uran-, Uran

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾna/ [ˈuɾ.na]

Noun

urna f (plural urnes)

1. urn
2. ballot box

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈur.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈuɾ.na]

Noun

urna f (plural urnes)

1. urn (vase)
2. poll, ballot box

Further reading

• “urna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

urna

Wikipedia ^cs

Volební urna

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurna]
• Hyphenation: ur‧na

Noun

urna f

1. urn

   urna s popelem ― urn with ashes

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	urna	urny
genitive	urny	uren
dative	urně	urnám
accusative	urnu	urny
vocative	urno	urny
locative	urně	urnách
instrumental	urnou	urnami

Declension of urna (hard feminine reducible)

Derived terms

• volební urna

Further reading

• “urna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “urna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurnɒ]
• Hyphenation: urna

Noun

urna (plural urnák)

1. urn
2. ballot box

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	urna	urnák
accusative	urnát	urnákat
dative	urnának	urnáknak
instrumental	urnával	urnákkal
causal-final	urnáért	urnákért
translative	urnává	urnákká
terminative	urnáig	urnákig
essive-formal	urnaként	urnákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	urnában	urnákban
superessive	urnán	urnákon
adessive	urnánál	urnáknál
illative	urnába	urnákba
sublative	urnára	urnákra
allative	urnához	urnákhoz
elative	urnából	urnákból
delative	urnáról	urnákról
ablative	urnától	urnáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	urnáé	urnáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	urnáéi	urnákéi

Possessive forms of urna
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	urnám	urnáim
2nd person sing.	urnád	urnáid
3rd person sing.	urnája	urnái
1st person plural	urnánk	urnáink
2nd person plural	urnátok	urnáitok
3rd person plural	urnájuk	urnáik

Derived terms

Compound words

• szavazóurna

Italian

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/
• Rhymes: -urna
• Hyphenation: ùr‧na

Noun

urna f (plural urne)

1. urn, pot
2. ballot box

Anagrams

• runa

Latin

urna sepulcrālis (a funerary urn)

Etymology

Probably from *urc-na, with simplification of the cluster.^[1] Ernout and Meillet view this word, urceus, orca and Greek ὕρχη (húrkhē) (other words for vessels) as all related somehow via borrowing (with the exact source and pathway unclear).^[2] Bennett 1907 indicates that the length of the vowel in the first syllable is not established, noting that the Italian descendant could be a learned form, and hypothesizes that the word is derived from a weak grade of the root arc-,^[3] presumably referring to the root found in arceō, arca, and arx, which is now reconstructed as *h₂erk-. However, Schrijver 1991 argues that word-initial *HRC- normally has a reflex of aRC in Latin (as in argentum from *h₂r̥ǵn̥to-),^[4] which would exclude Bennett's favored etymology.

By an alternative derivation, from ūrō (“burn, singe”) in reference to the firing of the clay in their creation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/, [ˈʊrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/, [ˈurnä]

Noun

urna f (genitive urnae); first declension

1. urn, a moderately sized vessel for drawing water
   • c. 620–600 BC, Tita Vendia vase:

     𐌄𐌂𐌏𐌖𐌓𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌉𐌀𐌔𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓[𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌]𐌄𐌃𐌖𐌇𐌄[𐌂𐌄𐌃]

     ECOVRNATITAVENDIASMAMAR[COSM]EDVHE[CED]
     eco urna tita vendias mamar[cos m]ed vhe[ced]

     I am the urn of Tita Vendia. Mamar[cos had me made].

2. (chiefly historical) ballot box, particularly the urns used in gathering Roman ballots under the Republic
3. urn, a moderately sized vessel used to store the ashes of the cremated dead
4. bank, coin jar, a jar or urn used to store money
5. (historical) urna, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 13 L

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	urna	urnae
genitive	urnae	urnārum
dative	urnae	urnīs
accusative	urnam	urnās
ablative	urnā	urnīs
vocative	urna	urnae

Coordinate terms

• (unit of liquid volume): lingula (1/1152 urna), cyathus (1/288 urna), acetabulum (1/192 urna), quartarius (1/96 urna), hemina (1/48 urna), sextarius (1/24 urna), congius (¼ urna), amphora (2 urnae), culeus (40 urnae)

Derived terms

• urnālis
• urnārium
• urniger
• urnula

Descendants

• Asturian: urna
• Catalan: urna
• English: urn, urna
• Esperanto: urno
• French: urne
• Galician: urna
• Georgian: ურნა (urna)
• German: Urne
• Italian: urna
• Norwegian: urne (Bokmål), urne (Nynorsk)
• Portuguese: urna
• Romanian: urnă
• Russian: у́рна (úrna)
• Spanish: urna

References

1. “urna” on page 2,107 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
2. Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “urna”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001
3. Charles E. Bennett (1907) “Hidden Quantity”, in The Latin Language – a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 71
4. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 72

Further reading

• “urna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “urna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• urna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “urna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• urnen

Noun

urna f sg

1. definite feminine singular of urne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

urna f sg

1. definite singular of urne

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• ürna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈyrna/

Noun

urna f (plural urne)

1. urn

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

urna

Wikipedia ^pl

urna sense 1

urna sense 2

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -urna
• Syllabification: ur‧na
• Homophone: Urna

Noun

urna f (related adjective urnowy)

2. urn (vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person)

   Synonyms: cinerarium, popielnica

   Hypernym: pojemnik

4. ballot box (sealed box with a slit, into which a voter puts a completed voting slip)

   Hypernym: pojemnik

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	urna	urny
genitive	urny	urn
dative	urnie	urnom
accusative	urnę	urny
instrumental	urną	urnami
locative	urnie	urnach
vocative	urno	urny

Declension of urna

Further reading

• urna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• urna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• urna in PWN's encyclopedia

Anagrams

• runa

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.nɐ/ [ˈuɦ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.nɐ/ [ˈuɦ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuɻ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: ur‧na

Noun

urna f (plural urnas)

1. ballot box (a sealed box into which a voter puts his voting slip)
2. urn (vessel for ashes of a deceased person)
3. (by extension) coffin (box in which a dead person is buried)
4. (archaic) a vase for water

Further reading

• “urna” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

urna

Wikipedia ^sh

Noun

urna f (Cyrillic spelling урна)

1. urn

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾna/ [ˈuɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -uɾna
• Syllabification: ur‧na

Noun

urna f (plural urnas)

1. urn
2. poll; ballot box

Derived terms

• sondeo a pie de urna

Further reading

• “urna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

urna c

1. urn

Declension

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	urna	urnas
	definite	urnan	urnans
plural	indefinite	urnor	urnors
	definite	urnorna	urnornas

Declension of urna

References

• urna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• urna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• urna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• runa, uran