helios

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Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek .

Noun

helios (plural helioses)

  1. (historical) A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
    • 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:
      The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.
    • 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:
      The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).

Etymology 2

Noun

helios

  1. plural of helio

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