caldarium

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin caldārium (“room containing warm water for bathing”), substantive of caldārius (“of, pertaining to or suitable for bathing”), from caldus (“warm, hot”) + -ārius, alternative form of calidus, from caleō (“I am warm or hot; glow”).

Noun

caldarium (plural caldaria)

  1. In Roman baths, the hottest room, with a plunge-pool. It preceded the tepidarium and frigidarium.
  2. In modern spas, a room with a hot floor.

French

Noun

caldarium m (plural caldariums)

  1. caldarium

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From caldus (“warm in temperature”, alternative form of calidus) +‎ -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *caldārius.

Pronunciation

Noun

caldārium n (genitive caldāriī or caldārī); second declension

  1. warm bath
    Synonym: caldāria
  2. caldarium (room in Roman baths containing hot water)
    Coordinate terms: apodytērium, frīgidārium, Lacōnicum, tepidārium
  3. boiler for heating water for the baths
  4. (Late Latin) portable stove

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative caldārium caldāria
genitive caldāriī
caldārī1 		caldāriōrum
dative caldāriō caldāriīs
accusative caldārium caldāria
ablative caldāriō caldāriīs
vocative caldārium caldāria

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

Descendants

(See also Late Latin caldāria, -um 'cooking-pot'.)

References

  • “caldarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caldarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “caldarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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