urna
English
Noun
urna (plural urnas)
- (Buddhism) A spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark.
- 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).
Noun
urna
- (historical) In ancient Rome, a liquid measurement of half an amphora, or a vessel of this size.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “urna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech

Volební urna
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈurna]
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈur.na/
- Hyphenation: ùr‧na
Latin

urna sepulcrālis (a funerary urn)
Etymology
From ūrō (“burn, singe”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈur.na/, [ˈʊr.na]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
ūrna f (genitive ūrnae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ūrna | ūrnae |
Genitive | ūrnae | ūrnārum |
Dative | ūrnae | ūrnīs |
Accusative | ūrnam | ūrnās |
Ablative | ūrnā | ūrnīs |
Vocative | ūrna | ūrnae |
Derived terms
- ūrnālis
- ūrnārium
- ūrniger
- ūrnula
Descendants
References
- 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 Nynorsk
Polish

urna
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ur‧na
Portuguese
Noun
urna f (plural urnas)
- ballot box (a sealed box into which a voter puts his voting slip)
- urn (vessel for ashes of a deceased person)
- (by extension) coffin (box in which a dead person is buried)
- (archaic) a vase for water
Further reading
- urna in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈurna/
- Hyphenation: ur‧na
Further reading
- “urna” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
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