English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin vaporarium.

Noun edit

vaporarium (plural vaporaria)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A steam bath.

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From vapōr (vapor) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *vapōrārius (relating to vapor).

Noun edit

vapōrārium n (genitive vapōrāriī or vapōrārī); second declension

  1. steam pipe (which conveyed heat to the sweating room in Roman baths)

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vapōrārium vapōrāria
Genitive vapōrāriī
vapōrārī1
vapōrāriōrum
Dative vapōrāriō vapōrāriīs
Accusative vapōrārium vapōrāria
Ablative vapōrāriō vapōrāriīs
Vocative vapōrārium vapōrāria

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

References edit

  • vaporarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vaporarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vaporarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • vaporarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers