solarium
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin sōlārium (“sundial, place for enjoying sunlight”), from sōl (“sun”) + -ārium (“-arium: indicating related places or devices”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
solarium (plural solariums or solaria)
- (chiefly US and Canada) A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight (especially) when used as a medical treatment.
- Synonym: sunroom
- Coordinate terms: conservatory, greenhouse, hothouse
- 1891, Edward Eggleston, The Faith Doctor, page 289:
- My brother kept a health-lift a few years ago... and then he had a blue-glass solarium.
- 1894 September 20, The Voice:
- The solariums on the roofs of the houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans testify to the benefits obtained by them from sun baths.
- 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.
- (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
- (archaic) Synonym of sundial.
- 1842, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, page 487:
- […] this solarium being made for a different meridian […]
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From English solarium, from Latin sōlārium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
solarium
- tanning bed, sunbed (tanning device)
- tanning salon, solarium (room or establishment with sunbeds)
Declension edit
Inflection of solarium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | solarium | solariumit | ||
genitive | solariumin | solariumien | ||
partitive | solariumia | solariumeja | ||
illative | solariumiin | solariumeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | solarium | solariumit | ||
accusative | nom. | solarium | solariumit | |
gen. | solariumin | |||
genitive | solariumin | solariumien | ||
partitive | solariumia | solariumeja | ||
inessive | solariumissa | solariumeissa | ||
elative | solariumista | solariumeista | ||
illative | solariumiin | solariumeihin | ||
adessive | solariumilla | solariumeilla | ||
ablative | solariumilta | solariumeilta | ||
allative | solariumille | solariumeille | ||
essive | solariumina | solariumeina | ||
translative | solariumiksi | solariumeiksi | ||
abessive | solariumitta | solariumeitta | ||
instructive | — | solariumein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “solarium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
solarium m (plural solariums)
Further reading edit
- “solarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin sōlārium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
solarium m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- solarium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sōl (“the sun”) + -ārium (of purpose, for the sense of sundial; of place, for the sense of terrace), via *sōlārius (relating to the sun).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soːˈlaː.ri.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈla.ri.um/, [soˈläːrium]
Noun edit
sōlārium n (genitive sōlāriī or sōlārī); second declension
- a sundial
- a terrace exposed to the sun
- a summer-house
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | sōlārium | sōlāria |
Genitive | sōlāriī sōlārī1 |
sōlāriōrum |
Dative | sōlāriō | sōlāriīs |
Accusative | sōlārium | sōlāria |
Ablative | sōlāriō | sōlāriīs |
Vocative | sōlārium | sōlāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References edit
- “solarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- solarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “solarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “solarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarier, definite plural solaria or solariene)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarium, definite plural solaria)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin sōlārium.
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Noun edit
solarium n
- solarium (establishment where one can rent sunbeds)
- solarium (room, with many windows, exposed to the sun)
- (archaic) sundial (device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow)
- Synonym: zegar słoneczny
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin solarium. First attested in 1980.
Noun edit
solarium n
- a solarium
Declension edit
Declension of solarium | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | solarium | solariet | solarier | solarierna |
Genitive | solariums | solariets | solariers | solariernas |