Definitions for laconicum

laconicum la·con·i·cum

Spelling: [luh-kon-i-kuh m]
IPA: /ləˈkɒn ɪ kəm/

Laconicum is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 346 anagrams from letters in laconicum (accilmnou).

Definitions for laconicum

noun

  1. the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.

Origin of laconicum

1690-1700; Latin lacōnicum sweating room, noun use of neuter of Lacōnicus Laconian (see laconic); the sweat bath was a Spartan custom

Examples for laconicum

It had on one side the laconicum, containing the vase called labrum.

Owing to the expansion by heat, a relatively greater volume of air enters the laconicum than the cold intake.

The Romans had their laconicum or heating stove, which from its name was an invention from Laconia.

Doors led into the laconicum from both the tepidarium and the caldarium.

Adjoining is the laconicum with a firebrick furnace, after the nature of that of which I have before given full detailed drawings.

The Spartan bath (laconicum) was a hot-air bath, like a Turkish bath.

It is known that the temperature of the laconicum was regulated by drawing up or down a metallic plate or clypeus.

We are, to all practical intents and purposes, in a Roman laconicum.

At the end of the laconicum they enter flues, which I have shown as running side by side with the smoke flues.

The perspiration is attained in the various hot rooms—the Tepidarium, Calidarium, and laconicum.

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