apodyterium

English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion), from ἀποδύω (apodúō, “strip oneself”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæpədaɪˈtɪəɹi.əm/

Noun

apodyterium (plural apodyteriums or apodyteria)

1. (architecture, historical) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.

Translations

the apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed

• French: apodytère (fr), apodytérium (fr)
• Portuguese: apoditério m

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.dyˈteː.ri.um/, [äpɔd̪ʏˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.diˈte.ri.um/, [äpod̪iˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

apodytērium n (genitive apodytēriī or apodytērī); second declension

1. a changing room

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apodytērium	apodytēria
Genitive	apodytēriī apodytērī1	apodytēriōrum
Dative	apodytēriō	apodytēriīs
Accusative	apodytērium	apodytēria
Ablative	apodytēriō	apodytēriīs
Vocative	apodytērium	apodytēria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: apodyterium
• Italian: apoditerio

References

• “apodyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apodyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apodyterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “apodyterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apodyterium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin