helios
See also: Helios
English
editEtymology 1
editAncient Greek [Term?]
Noun
edithelios (plural helioses)
- (historical) A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
- 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:
- The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.
- 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:
- The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
Etymology 2
editNoun
edithelios