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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin caldārium (room containing warm water for bathing), substantive of caldārius (of, pertaining to or suitable for bathing), from caldus (warm, hot) + -ārius, alternative form of calidus, from caleō (I am warm or hot; glow).

Noun

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caldarium (plural caldaria)

  1. In Roman baths, the hottest room, with a plunge-pool. It preceded the tepidarium and frigidarium.
  2. In modern spas, a room with a hot floor.

French

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Noun

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caldarium m (plural caldariums)

  1. caldarium

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From caldus (warm in temperature, alternative form of calidus) +‎ -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *caldārius.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caldārium n (genitive caldāriī or caldārī); second declension

  1. warm bath
    Synonym: caldāria
  2. caldarium (room in Roman baths containing hot water)
    Coordinate terms: apodytērium, frīgidārium, Lacōnicum, tepidārium
  3. boiler for heating water for the baths
  4. (Late Latin) portable stove

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caldārium caldāria
Genitive caldāriī
caldārī1
caldāriōrum
Dative caldāriō caldāriīs
Accusative caldārium caldāria
Ablative caldāriō caldāriīs
Vocative caldārium caldāria

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

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Descendants

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(See also Late Latin caldāria, -um 'cooking-pot'.)

References

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  • caldarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caldarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caldarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin