apodyterium

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English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion), from ἀποδύω (apodúō, strip oneself).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌæpədaɪˈtɪəɹi.əm/

Noun

apodyterium (plural apodyteriums or apodyteria)

  1. (architecture, historical) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion).

Pronunciation

Noun

apodytērium n (genitive apodytēriī or apodytērī); second declension

  1. changing room

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative apodytērium apodytēria
genitive apodytēriī
apodytērī1
apodytēriōrum
dative apodytēriō apodytēriīs
accusative apodytērium apodytēria
ablative apodytēriō apodytēriīs
vocative apodytērium apodytēria

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

Descendants

  • English: apodyterium
  • Italian: apoditerio

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