caldarium

American  

[kal-dair-ee-uhm] / kælˈdɛər i əm /

noun

• caldaria
  plural

1. (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a hot bath.

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caldarium British  

/ kælˈdɛərɪəm /

noun

1. (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• caldaria
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of caldarium

1745–55; < Latin: noun use of neuter of caldārius of warming, equivalent to cal ( i ) d ( us ) warm ( cal ( ēre ) to be warm + -idus -id ⁴ ) + -ārius -ary; see -ium, -arium

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Example Sentences

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caldarium caldaria

In ancient times, the Romans named it the caldarium; we simply call it the hot tub.

From Time ● Dec. 13, 2014

On page 542 the author describes making caldarium copper from a mixture of yellow copper and a peculiar cadmia, which he describes as the "slags" from refining copper.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

This caldarium is a long room at the ends of which rises, on one side, something like the parapet of a well, and on the other a square basin.

From The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier

Then he throws it into the tub containing hot water, for the caldarium copper is finer if quenched in hot water.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

From the tepidarium the bather might enter the caldarium or sweating room, an apartment constructed with double walls and floor, between which hot air was made to pass.

From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott

There were hot, and cold, and tepid baths, caldaria, or sweating chambers, frigidaria, or cooling rooms, unctoria, or anointing rooms, and many others sufficient to accommodate sixteen hundred bathers at once.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow

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