vaporarium

Borrowed from Latin vaporarium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌveɪ.pəˈɹɛəɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌveɪ.pəˈɹɛɹi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

vaporarium (plural vaporaria)

1. (medicine, archaic) A steam bath.

• parovarium

From vapōr (“vapor”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *vapōrārius (relating to vapor).

vapōrārium n (genitive vapōrāriī or vapōrārī); second declension

1. steam pipe (which conveyed heat to the sweating room in Roman baths)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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