carnary means A crypt, a charnel house. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “carnary” is a great word
CARNARY — [Noun] A repository for the storage of human skeletal remains. From the Latin carnarium ("a place for flesh"), from caro, carnis ("flesh"). Unlike "charnel house," which evokes a grimly specific and often macabre weight, or "crypt," which denotes an architectural burial chamber, often with dignity, a carnary is the unadorned, functional term for the final sorting-house of the body. It is the cool, silent ossuary beneath a monastery, the stacked geometry of femurs and skulls in a catacomb niche, the simple ledger recording the transfer of remains—a word not for the horror of death, but for its quiet, administrative aftermath: the bureaucracy of dust.
Etymology
From Latin carnarium, from caro, carnis (“flesh”).
noun
- A crypt, a charnel house.“The rugged walls, which formed the gateway and part of the ancient monastery, in this supposition, must have been the work of Walkelin; the chapel and carnary are evidently of a later date, by more than a century.”