vaporarium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vaporarium. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌveɪ.pəˈɹɛəɹi.əm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌveɪ.pəˈɹɛɹi.əm/ Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm === Noun === vaporarium (plural vaporaria) (medicine, archaic) A steam bath. === Anagrams === parovarium == Latin == === Etymology === From vapōr (“vapor”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *vapōrārius (relating to vapor). === Noun === vapōrārium n (genitive vapōrāriī or vapōrārī); second declension steam pipe (which conveyed heat to the sweating room in Roman baths) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “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