frigidarium

Borrowed from Latin frīgidārium, from frīgidus (“cold”). Doublet of frigidaire.

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

frigidarium (plural frigidaria)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) In Ancient Roman baths, a room with a bath of cold water.

• caldarium
• tepidarium
• thermae

Learned borrowing from Latin frīgidārium. Doublet of frigidaire.

frigidarium m (plural frigidariums)

1. frigidarium

• “frigidarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From frīgidus (“cold”) +‎ -ārium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [friː.ɡɪˈdaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fri.d͡ʒiˈd̪aː.ri.um]

frīgidārium n (genitive frīgidāriī or frīgidārī); second declension

1. frigidarium (cold room in Roman baths)

   Coordinate terms: apodytērium, caldārium, Lacōnicum, tepidārium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “frigidarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• frigidarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.