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English
Etymology
From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion), from ἀποδύω (apodúō, “strip oneself”).
Pronunciation
Noun
apodyterium (plural apodyteriums or apodyteria)
- (architecture, historical) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.
Translations
the apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion).
Pronunciation
Noun
apodytērium n (genitive apodytēriī or apodytērī); second declension
- changing room
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “apodyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “apodyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- apodyterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “apodyterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “apodyterium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin