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A place where the dead are kept and cared for before burial or cremation.
means A place where dead bodies are kept and prepared before burial or cremation.
from From Latin mortuarius, 'belonging to the dead,' rooted in mors/mortis, 'death.' The word passed into English through Anglo-French, first describing a customary gift or payment owed to a parish priest from a dead person's estate — only later settling into its current, grimmer job of naming the room itself.
- etymology
- from latin mors, death, same root as mortgage
- mortgage link
- mortgage literally means death pledge
- temperature
- kept near 36F to slow decomposition
- not a morgue
- morgues identify bodies, mortuaries prepare them