(pl. -ies)
- a room or building in which dead bodies are kept, for hygienic storage or for examination, until burial or cremation太平间, 停尸房。
attrib.
- of or relating to burial or tombs（与）埋葬（有关）的; （与）坟墓（有关）的：
mortuary rituals
下葬仪式
a mortuary temple.
停尸殿堂。
词源
late Middle English （denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate）： from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus 'dead'. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th cent.