From Latin 'urna' (pot, vessel for ashes) — possibly tied to 'urere' (to burn) or a pre-IE substrate word.
A tall, rounded vessel with a base and often a lid, used for storing the ashes of a cremated person, as a decorative container, or for holding and serving tea or coffee.
From Latin 'urna' (a pot, jar, vessel, especially one used for holding the ashes of the dead or for drawing water), of uncertain ultimate origin. Some scholars connect it to the Latin verb 'ūrere' (to burn), which would link the urn etymologically to cremation. Others derive it from a root related to water — possibly connected to Latin 'urceus' (a
John Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1819) is one of the most celebrated poems in the English language, ending with the famous lines: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' The poem transformed a funerary vessel into one of the most powerful symbols of art's permanence in Western literature.