tepidarium

Borrowed from Latin tepidārium.

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

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

• caldarium
• frigidarium
• tepid

tepidarium m (plural tepidariums or tepidaria)

1. tepidarium

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

From tepidus (“tepid”) +‎ -ārium.

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

tepidārium n (genitive tepidāriī or tepidārī); second declension

1. tepidarium (warm room in Roman baths)

   Coordinate terms: apodytērium, caldārium, frīgidārium, Lacōnicum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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.

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tepidārium.

tepidarium n (uncountable)

1. tepidarium