| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| feretory |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fer·e·to·ry |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f r  -tôr  , -t r |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. fer·e·to·ries
1. A receptacle to hold the relics of saints; a reliquary. 2. An area of a church in which reliquaries are kept. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Anglo-Norman fertre, from Latin feretrum, from Greek pheretron, from pherein, to carry. See bher-1 in Appendix I.
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