‖ tepidarium
(tɛpɪˈdɛərɪəm)
Pl. -ia. Also 6 in anglicized form tepidarie.
[L., f. tepidus tepid: see -arium.]
The warm room in an ancient Roman bath, situated between the frigidarium and the caldarium. Hence also applied to a similar room in a Turkish bath.
| 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xxi. 58 b, [Bathers] doe first goe in to the Tepidarie too make themselues sweate. 1818 E. Blaquiere tr. Pananti 223 He successively passes through the frigidarium, and tepidarium, until he reaches the calidarium of the Romans. 1834 Lytton Pompeii i. vii, The more luxurious departed by another door to the tepidarium. 1969 J. Wainwright Take-Over Men ii. 27, I followed him..into the warm room (the Tepidarium)..into the hot room (the Calidarium); and finally..into the Laconicum. 1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Oct. 4/3 When you are gleaming horribly [with sweat], you go into the tepidarium. |