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solarium

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See also: Solarium and solárium

English

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Etymology

From Latin sōlārium (sundial, place for enjoying sunlight), from sōl (sun) + -ārium (-arium: indicating related places or devices).

Pronunciation

Noun

solarium (plural solariums or solaria)

  1. (chiefly US and Canada) A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight, especially when used as a medical treatment.
    Synonym: sunroom
    Coordinate terms: conservatory, greenhouse, hothouse
    • 1891, Edward Eggleston, The Faith Doctor, page 289:
      My brother kept a health-lift a few years ago... and then he had a blue-glass solarium.
    • 1894 September 20, The Voice:
      The solariums on the roofs of the houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans testify to the benefits obtained by them from sun baths.
    • 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:
      The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.
  2. (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
  3. An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
  4. (archaic) Synonym of sundial.
    • 1842, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, page 487:
      [] this solarium being made for a different meridian []
    • 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur, page 142:
      [] lifting his eyes from the solarium set under the aplustre for reference in keeping the course...

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Finnish

Etymology

From English solarium, from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsolɑ(ː)rium/, [ˈs̠o̞lɑ̝(ː)ˌrium]
  • Rhymes: -ium
  • Syllabification(key): so‧la‧ri‧um
  • Hyphenation(key): so‧la‧ri‧um

Noun

solarium

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

Declension

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More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

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French

Etymology

From Latin solarium.

Pronunciation

Noun

solarium m (plural solariums)

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

Further reading

Italian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈla.rjum/
  • Rhymes: -arjum
  • Hyphenation: so‧là‧rium

Noun

solarium m (invariable)

  1. solarium
  2. sunbed

Further reading

  • solarium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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

Noun

sōlārium n (genitive sōlāriī or sōlārī); second declension

  1. a sundial
  2. a terrace exposed to the sun
  3. a summer-house

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: solaio
    • Sicilian: sularu
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: soliér
    • Norman: solier
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: soler
    • Occitan:
      Gascon: solèr
      Languedocien: solièr
      Limousin: solier
      Vivaro-Alpine: solier
  • Borrowings:

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarier, definite plural solaria or solariene)

  1. (archaic) sundial
  2. solarium
  3. sunbed

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarium, definite plural solaria)

  1. (archaic) sundial
  2. solarium
  3. sunbed

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlārium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔˈla.rjum/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -arjum
  • Syllabification: so‧la‧rium

Noun

solarium n

  1. solarium (establishment where one can rent sunbeds)
  2. solarium (room, with many windows, exposed to the sun)
  3. (archaic) sundial (device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow)
    Synonym: zegar słoneczny

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • solarium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • solarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Swedish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solarium. First attested in 1980.

Noun

solarium n

  1. a tanning bed, a sunbed, a tanning booth (tanning device)
    Synonym: (tanning bed) solariebädd
    sola solarium
    use a tanning bed / go to a tanning salon (idiomatic)
  2. a tanning salon, a solarium (room or establishment with tanning beds or the like)
  3. (archaic) a solarium (sundial)
    Synonym: solur

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

References

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