frigidarium

American  

[frij-i-dair-ee-uhm] / ˌfrɪdʒ ɪˈdɛər i əm /

noun

• frigidaria
  plural

1. (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• frigidaria
  plural

Etymology

Origin of frigidarium

From Latin; see origin at frigid, -arium

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

frigidarium frigidaria

Finally, they would enter the largest and most spectacular room of all - the frigidarium, or cold room.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shadow-travel left her groggy and nauseous, as if she’d been dragged from the cold waters of the frigidarium into the sauna at a Roman bathhouse.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Similarly, in a Roman style, a Pompeian court seems suggestive of the arrangement of a fine frigidarium, with its cubicula for couches, and its central area and fountain.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop

There are three features of the bath that are fit subjects for handsome designing, and they are the frigidarium, the tepidarium, and the plunge bath.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop

From the fact that there were pierced openings or windows in all these domes, they probably constituted the frigidaria of the baths.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

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

It was simply a cold chamber, cella frigidaria.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines