vaporarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vaporarium.

Noun

vaporarium (plural vaporaria)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A steam bath.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From vapōr (“vapor”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *vapōrārius (relating to vapor).

Noun

vapōrārium n (genitive vapōrāriī or vapōrārī); second declension

  1. steam pipe (which conveyed heat to the sweating room in Roman baths)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vapōrārium vapōrāria
Genitive vapōrāriī
vapōrārī1		 vapōrāriōrum
Dative vapōrāriō vapōrāriīs
Accusative vapōrārium vapōrāria
Ablative vapōrāriō vapōrāriīs
Vocative vapōrārium vapōrāria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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
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