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frigidarium

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[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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Etymology

Origin of frigidarium

From Latin; see origin at frigid, -arium

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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

The manager's room is on the second floor, adjoining the old building, and has a window overlooking the frigidarium.

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

In the centre of the frigidarium is a little marble fountain.

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

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

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

It was simply a cold chamber, cella frigidaria.

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

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