reliquary

Meaning

Noun

• A container to hold or display religious relics.
• An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
• A person who owes a balance.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (English relic), noun use of reliquus, from relinquō, from re- and linquō, from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.