caldarium
/kalˈdɛːrɪəm
/noun (plural caldaria /kalˈdɛːrɪə/)
A hot room in an ancient Roman bath.In the following year a much larger area was opened and the hypocaust proved to belong to the caldarium or hot room of baths which had been built about AD 60-65....
- They were converted in the C5 to a church by the removal of the walls between the caldaria and the tepidarium, the choir being constructed in the frigidarium.
- He could then do some exercising to work up a sweat before moving into the tepidarium which would prepare him for the caldarium which was more or less like a modern sauna.
Origin
Latin.