Pl. -ia. Also 6 in anglicized form tepidarie. [L., f. tepidus TEPID: see -ARIUM.] The warm room in an ancient Roman bath, situated between the frigidarium and the caldarium.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., II. xxi. 58 b. [Bathers] doe first goe in to the Tepidarie too make themselues sweate.
1743. D. Ingram, Ess Gout, 76. I would advise the Architect to follow exactly the Roman Model, to keep up to their Calidarium and Tepidarium, that so the Bath might be kept in whatever Degree of Warmth should be requir’d in the present Case.
1818. E. Blaquiere, trans. Pananti, 223. He successively passes through the frigidarium, and tepidarium, until he reaches the calidarium of the Romans.
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, I. vii. The more luxurious departed by another door to the tepidarium.
