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

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

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

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 Elliott, James Sands

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

Then one entered the caldarium, in which hot air was diffused by means of pipes leading from a furnace in the basement; then came the tepidarium, always followed by a plunge in cold water.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

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

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 Withrow, William Henry