Etymology

balneal

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to baths or to bathing Full definition →

Latin balneum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frombalneum“bath, bathing place”
  2. English todaybalneal

From Latin balneum (“bath, bathing place”) + -al.

Words from the same roots

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