tepidarium

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tep-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *tepēō

Latin tepeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin tepidus

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārium

Latin tepidāriumbor.

English tepidarium

Borrowed from Latin tepidārium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛpɪˈdɛəɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛpɪˈdɛɹi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

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.
4. (botany) A warm greenhouse typically used for plants from South Africa.
   • 1851, The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine, page 184:

     There is a pretty large glass-house, one-half being a caldarium, the other a tepidarium

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tep-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *tepēō

Latin tepeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin tepidus

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārium

Latin tepidārium

From tepidus (“tepid”) + -ārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛ.pɪˈdaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [te.piˈdaː.ri.um]

Noun

tepidārium Pompeiīs

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).

	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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tep-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *tepēō

Latin tepeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin tepidus

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārium

Latin tepidāriumubor.

Romanian tepidarium

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tepidārium.

Noun

tepidarium n (uncountable)

1. tepidarium

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tepidarium	tepidariumul
genitive-dative	tepidarium	tepidariumului
vocative	tepidariumule