solarium

Etymology

From Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒl.ɛəɹ.i.əm/, /ˈsʌl.ɛəɹ.i.əm/

Noun

solarium (plural solariums or solaria)

1. An establishment with sunbeds in it or where one can rent sunbeds.
2. A room, with many windows, exposed to the sun.
   1. (historical) An apartment or enclosure on the roof of a house.
   2. An apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

Anagrams

• soralium

Noun

solarium

1. A tanning bed, sunbed (tanning device).
2. A solarium (room or establishment with sunbeds).

Noun

solarium m (plural solariums)

1. solarium
2. (metonymically) sunbed, tanning bed

Further reading

• “solarium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

solarium m (invariable)

1. solarium
2. sunbed

Etymology

From sōl (“the sun”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose, for the sense of sundial; of place, for the sense of terrace), via *sōlārius (relating to the sun).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /soːˈlaː.ri.um/, [soːˈɫaː.ri.ũ]

Noun

sōlārium n (genitive sōlāriī); second declension

1. a sundial
2. a terrace exposed to the sun

References

• solarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• solarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• solarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Noun

solarium n

1. solarium (establishment where one can rent sunbeds)

Noun

solarium n

1. a solarium