solarium

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See also: Solarium and solárium

English

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A solarium.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sōlārium (sundial, place for enjoying sunlight), from sōl (sun) + -ārium (-arium: indicating related places or devices).

Pronunciation

Noun

solarium (plural solariums or solaria)

  1. (chiefly US and Canada) A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight (especially) when used as a medical treatment.
    Synonym: sunroom
    Coordinate terms: conservatory, greenhouse, hothouse
    • 1891, Edward Eggleston, The Faith Doctor, page 289:
      My brother kept a health-lift a few years ago... and then he had a blue-glass solarium.
    • 1894 September 20, The Voice:
      The solariums on the roofs of the houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans testify to the benefits obtained by them from sun baths.
    • 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.
  2. (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
  3. An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
  4. (archaic) Synonym of sundial.
    • 1842, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, page 487:
      [] this solarium being made for a different meridian []
    • 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur, page 142:
      [] lifting his eyes from the solarium set under the aplustre for reference in keeping the course...

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Finnish

Etymology

From English solarium, from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsolɑ(ː)rium/,
  • Rhymes: -ium
  • Hyphenation(key): so‧la‧ri‧um

Noun

solarium

  1. tanning bed, sunbed (tanning device)
  2. tanning salon, solarium (room or establishment with sunbeds)

Declension

Inflection of solarium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative solarium solariumit
genitive solariumin solariumien
partitive solariumia solariumeja
illative solariumiin solariumeihin
singular plural
nominative solarium solariumit
accusative nom. solarium solariumit
gen. solariumin
genitive solariumin solariumien
partitive solariumia solariumeja
inessive solariumissa solariumeissa
elative solariumista solariumeista
illative solariumiin solariumeihin
adessive solariumilla solariumeilla
ablative solariumilta solariumeilta
allative solariumille solariumeille
essive solariumina solariumeina
translative solariumiksi solariumeiksi
abessive solariumitta solariumeitta
instructive solariumein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of solarium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

French

Etymology

From Latin solarium.

Pronunciation

Noun

solarium m (plural solariums)

  1. solarium
  2. (metonymically) sunbed, tanning bed

Further reading

Italian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈla.rjum/
  • Rhymes: -arjum
  • Hyphenation: so‧là‧rium

Noun

solarium m (invariable)

  1. solarium
  2. sunbed

Further reading

  • solarium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From sōl (the sun) +‎ -ārium (of purpose, for the sense of sundial; of place, for the sense of terrace), via *sōlārius (relating to the sun).

Pronunciation

Noun

sōlārium n (genitive sōlāriī or sōlārī); second declension

  1. a sundial
  2. a terrace exposed to the sun
  3. a summer-house

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative sōlārium sōlāria
genitive sōlāriī
sōlārī1
sōlāriōrum
dative sōlāriō sōlāriīs
accusative sōlārium sōlāria
ablative sōlāriō sōlāriīs
vocative sōlārium sōlāria

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

Descendants

References

  • solarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • solarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • solarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • solarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • solarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • solarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarier, definite plural solaria or solariene)

  1. (archaic) sundial
  2. solarium
  3. sunbed

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarium, definite plural solaria)

  1. (archaic) sundial
  2. solarium
  3. sunbed

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔˈla.rjum/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -arjum
  • Syllabification: so‧la‧rium

Noun

solarium n

  1. solarium (establishment where one can rent sunbeds)
  2. solarium (room, with many windows, exposed to the sun)
  3. (archaic) sundial (device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow)
    Synonym: zegar słoneczny

Declension

Derived terms

noun

Further reading

  • solarium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • solarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

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ett solarium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solarium. First attested in 1980.

Noun

solarium n

  1. a tanning bed, a sunbed, a tanning booth (tanning device)
    Synonym: (tanning bed) solariebädd
    sola solarium
    use a tanning bed / go to a tanning salon (idiomatic)
  2. a tanning salon, a solarium (room or establishment with tanning beds or the like)
  3. (archaic) a solarium (sundial)
    Synonym: solur

Declension

References