helios

See also: Helios

English

Etymology 1

Ancient Greek [Term?]

Noun

helios (plural helioses)

1. (historical) A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
   • 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.

   • 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:

     The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).

Etymology 2

Noun

helios

1. plural of helio

Anagrams

• holies, isohel