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• Solarium

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

• IPA^(key): /səˈlɛəɹ.i.əm/

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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...

• soralium

From English solarium, from Latin sōlārium.

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

solarium

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

• “solarium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From Latin solarium.

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solarium m (plural solariums)

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

• “solarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

 

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin sōlārium.

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

solarium m (invariable)

1. solarium
2. sunbed

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

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).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soːˈlaː.ri.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈla.ri.um/, [soˈläːrium]

sōlārium n (genitive sōlāriī or sōlārī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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

• aliorsum

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

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

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

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

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

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Learned borrowing from Latin sōlārium.

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈla.rjum/

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• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: so‧la‧rium

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

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

 

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Borrowed from Latin solarium. First attested in 1980.

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

• solarium in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker