bagnio

[ban-yoh, bahn-]

noun

plural

bagnios 

1. a brothel.

2. (especially in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house.

3. a prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire.

bagnio

/ ˈbɑːnjəʊ /

noun

1. a brothel

2. obsolete,  an oriental prison for slaves

3. obsolete,  an Italian or Turkish bathhouse

Word History and Origins

Origin of bagnio¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Italian bagno, from Latin balneum, balineum, from Greek balaneîon “bathroom, bath”

Word History and Origins

Origin of bagnio¹

C16: from Italian bagno , from Latin balneum bath, from Greek balaneion

Example Sentences

As it was thought that I might be ransomed, the Moors placed me in a bagnio, and I was not forced to labour like those captives who had no hope of redemption.

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One half come to prosecute their debaucheries, so openly that it would degrade a bagnio.

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He is pleased, because he didn't like putting us into the bagnio.

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The price of a bath, paid to the keeper of the public bagnio.

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Any place where men have builded a jail, a bagnio, a gallows, a morgue, a church, a hospital, a saloon, and laid out a cemetery—hence a center of life.

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Related Words

• bordello 
• red-light district