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reliquary

re·li·quary

UK/ˈɹɛlɪ(ˌ)kwɛɹi/ US/ˈɹɛlɪkwəɹi/ uncommon

noun

1.

a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

Origin

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-.

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