tepidarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tepidārium.

Noun

tepidarium (plural tepidariums or tepidaria)

1. (historical) A warm room in a Roman baths that was usually heated by a hypocaust.
2. (historical) A boiler in which the water was heated.
3. Any room containing a warm bath.

See also

• caldarium
• frigidarium
• tepid

French

Noun

tepidarium m (plural tepidariums or tepidaria)

1. tepidarium

Further reading

• “tepidarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From tepidus (“tepid”) +‎ -ārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /te.piˈdaː.ri.um/, [t̪ɛpɪˈd̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te.piˈda.ri.um/, [t̪epiˈd̪äːrium]

Noun

tepidārium Pompēiīs

tepidārium n (genitive tepidāriī or tepidārī); second declension

1. tepidarium (warm room in Roman baths)

   Coordinate terms: apodytērium, caldārium, frīgidārium, Lacōnicum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tepidārium	tepidāria
Genitive	tepidāriī tepidārī1	tepidāriōrum
Dative	tepidāriō	tepidāriīs
Accusative	tepidārium	tepidāria
Ablative	tepidāriō	tepidāriīs
Vocative	tepidārium	tepidāria

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

References

• “tepidarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tepidarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tepidārium.

Noun

tepidarium n (uncountable)

1. tepidarium

Declension

declension of tepidarium (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tepidarium	tepidariumul
genitive/dative	(unui) tepidarium	tepidariumului
vocative	tepidariumule