vaporarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vaporarium.

Noun

vaporarium (plural vaporaria)

1. (medicine, archaic) A steam bath.

Anagrams

• parovarium

Latin

Etymology

From vapōr (“vapor”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *vapōrārius (relating to vapor).

Noun

vapōrārium n (genitive vapōrāriī or vapōrārī); second declension

1. steam pipe (which conveyed heat to the sweating room in Roman baths)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vapōrārium	vapōrāria
genitive	vapōrāriī vapōrārī1	vapōrāriōrum
dative	vapōrāriō	vapōrāriīs
accusative	vapōrārium	vapōrāria
ablative	vapōrāriō	vapōrāriīs
vocative	vapōrārium	vapōrāria

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

References

• “vaporarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vaporarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vaporarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vaporarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers