caldarium

American  

[kal-dair-ee-uhm] / kælˈdɛər i əm /

noun

plural

caldaria

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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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; -ium, -arium

Example Sentences

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

From Time • Dec. 13, 2014

In other mines are made that known as regulare and caldarium.

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

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 Agricola, Georgius

These were the frigidarium, the caldarium, the sudatorium, and the tepidarium, for the cold, the hot, the sweating or vapor, and the warm baths.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

This room contained a labrum, or circular marble basin, containing cold water for pouring over the head before the bather left the caldarium.

From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by Elliott, James Sands