lavatorium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatory and laver. === Noun === lavatorium (plural lavatoriums or lavatoria) (rare) A washroom or -place. Particularly, (architecture) the communal washing area in a monastery. (rare) A lavatory. (rare, historical fiction) An ancient Roman lavatory. == Latin == === Etymology === From lavō (“wash”) + -tōrium. === Noun === lavātōrium n (genitive lavātōriī or lavātōrī); second declension (architecture, Late Latin, Medieval Latin) A washroom or -place, particularly a lavatorium. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “lavatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "lavatorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)