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sudatorium
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sudatorium \Su`da*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. Sudatoria. [L.]
A sudatory.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"room in a bath for sweating," 1756, from Latin sudatus, past participle of sudare "to sweat," from sudor "sweat" (see sweat (v.)) + -orium (see -ory).
Wiktionary
n. A hot room used to induce sweating
Wikipedia
In architecture, a sudatorium is a vaulted sweating-room ( sudor, sweat) of the Roman baths or thermae. The Roman architectural writer Vitruvius (v. 2) refers to it as concamerata sudatio.
In order to obtain the great heat required, the whole wall was lined with vertical terra-cotta flue pipes of rectangular section, placed side by side, through which hot air and smoke from the suspensura passed to an exit in the roof.
When Arabs and Turks overran the Eastern Roman Empire, they adopted and developed this feature in their baths or hammams.
Category:Ancient Roman baths Category:Rooms
Usage examples of "sudatorium".
When I was anointed with oil in the unctuarium, and later scraped clean of it in the sudatorium, none of the attendants remarked on my having to be cleansed of several encrustations that the human body normally does not accumulate in the course of a day.
Being then gradually warmed in the tepidarium, which has just been described, the delicate steps of the Pompeian elegant were conducted to the sudatorium.