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solarium
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin sōlārium (“sundial, place for enjoying sunlight”), from sōl (“sun”) + -ārium (“-arium: indicating related places or devices”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈlɛəɹ.i.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
solarium (plural solariums or solaria)
- (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.
- (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
- An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
- (archaic) Synonym of sundial.
- 1842, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, page 487:
- […] this solarium being made for a different meridian […]
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
solarium
- tanning bed, sunbed (tanning device)
- tanning salon, solarium (room or establishment with sunbeds)
Declension
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “solarium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
solarium m (plural solariums)
Further reading
- “solarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin sōlārium.
Pronunciation
Noun
solarium m (invariable)
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [soːˈɫaː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [soˈlaː.ri.um]
Noun
sōlārium n (genitive sōlāriī or sōlārī); second declension
- a sundial
- a terrace exposed to the sun
- a summer-house
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
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)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
solarium n (definite singular solariet, indefinite plural solarium, definite plural solaria)
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sōlārium.
Pronunciation
Noun
solarium n
- solarium (establishment where one can rent sunbeds)
- solarium (room, with many windows, exposed to the sun)
- (archaic) sundial (device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow)
- Synonym: zegar słoneczny
Declension
Declension of solarium
Derived terms
noun
Further reading
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Swedish
Etymology
Noun
solarium n
- 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)
- a tanning salon, a solarium (room or establishment with tanning beds or the like)
- (archaic) a solarium (sundial)
- Synonym: solur
Declension
References
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