laconicum

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noun

A hot dry sweating room, next to the caldarium in the Roman baths.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounlaconicum (plural laconica)

plural laconica

  1. A hot dry sweating room, next to the caldarium in the Roman baths.

Origin

  1. LatinLacōnicum“sweating room”
  2. Englishlaconicum

From Latin Lacōnicum (“sweating room”, literally “Spartan [bath]”).

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