vaporarium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vaporarium.
Noun
vaporarium (plural vaporaria)
- (medicine, archaic) A steam bath.
Anagrams
- parovarium
Latin
Etymology
From vapōr (“vapor”) + -ārium (of purpose), via *vapōrārius (relating to vapor).
Noun
vapōrārium n (genitive vapōrāriī); second declension
- steam pipe (which conveyed heat to the sweating room in Roman baths)
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vapōrārium | vapōrāria |
Genitive | vapōrāriī | vapōrāriōrum |
Dative | vapōrāriō | vapōrāriīs |
Accusative | vapōrārium | vapōrāria |
Ablative | vapōrāriō | vapōrāriīs |
Vocative | vapōrārium | vapōrāria |
References
- vaporarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vaporarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vaporarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- vaporarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers