Feretory Definition
fĕrĭ-tôrē
feretory
noun
A portable reliquary.
Webster's New World
A place for keeping this.
Webster's New World
An area of a church in which reliquaries are kept.
American Heritage
Origin of Feretory
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Middle English from Anglo-Norman fertre from Latin feretrum from Greek pheretron from pherein to carry bher-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English, from Anglo-Norman fertre, from Latin feretrum, from Ancient Greek φέρετρον (pheretron), from the verb φέρω (phero, “I carry”).
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