laconicum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

laconicum laconica

Etymology

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

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