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LNS

cinerārius, cinerāria, cinerārium

cinis

adjective (2-1-2)

pertaining to ashes
a servant who heated in glowing ashes the iron used in curling hair, a hair-curler
the receptacle for the ashes of the dead

Abbreviations

cinerārius, a, um, adj. cinis, pertaining to ashes. As adj. very rare: fines, boundaries of land bordering upon graves, Auct. Limit. p 296 Goes.

— More freq. subst. cinerārius, ii, m., a servant who heated in glowing ashes the iron used in curling hair, a hair-curler, Varr. L. L, 5, § 129 Mull., Cat. 61, 138; Sen. Const. 14, 1; Acro ad Hor S. 1, 2, 98; Tert. ad Uxor. 2, 8.

— CINERARIVM, ii, n., in tombs, the receptacle for the ashes of the dead, Inscr. Orell. 4358; 4513 al.