laconicum

American  

[luh-kon-i-kuhm] / ləˈkɒn ɪ kəm /

noun

laconica plural

1. the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• laconica
  plural

Etymology

Origin of laconicum

1690–1700; < Latin lacōnicum sweating room, noun use of neuter of Lacōnicus Laconian ( see laconic); the sweat bath was a Spartan custom

Example Sentences

Although the exact nature of the ancient Roman laconicum is still a question in debate, I have chosen to employ the term to designate herein the hottest of the hot.

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

Reisk.; although, according to Hephæstion, the laconicum metrum was a tetrameter catalecticus in syllabam, with a spondaic ending; and according to M. Victorinus ubi sup. a trimeter catalecticus in syllabam.1581.B.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

So much of the iron flue as is in the laconicum must be coated with asbestos or some composition, or the heating will not be wholly by firebrick.

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

In the old Roman bath the walls were charged with caloric by means of innumerable earthen tubes lining the sides of the laconicum, and covered with a peculiar plaster.

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

This heating apparatus is shown visible in the laconicum, but if thought desirable it could be screened by a wall of glazed bricks—9 in. and miss 4½ in.

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