Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Urnarium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

URNA'RIUM. A square slab or table in a Roman kitchen and in the baths, on which the water-cans and pitchers (urnae) were disposed. (Varro, L. L. v. 126. Id. ap. Non. s. v. p. 544.) In modern Italy, a similar convenience now goes by the name of secchiario, from secchia, a water-pail, which is usually formed of marble, with a hole through which the drippings and spilled water drain off, and doubtless corresponds with the Roman urnarium, and our kitchen sink.