Dormitorium
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A dormitory. rare
"There is something very pleasing and charitable in the idea, that ‘all who call themselves Christians’ should have one common κοιμητήριον, their dormitorium or resting-place, where they should lie down together, at peace in death, though separated in their lifetime, and awaiting their common resurrection; […]"
- 2 A dormitory.; An ancient Roman dormitory. rare
"The several apartments, I, M, are the cubicula or dormitoria, and those used by the family, termed exedrae and oeci. […] G […] and H are cubicula, the smaller of which are the dormitoria."
- 3 A dormitory.; A monastic dormitory. rare
"Here without question was a monastic settlement. It was hard to evade the Latin names (as if Roman devotion had invented the monastic life): the refectorium, with its lector’s reading-stand, the capella, the lavatorium, the dormitoria, they were all very recognizably there."
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More examples"There is something very pleasing and charitable in the idea, that ‘all who call themselves Christians’ should have one common κοιμητήριον, their dormitorium or resting-place, where they should lie down together, at peace in death, though separated in their lifetime, and awaiting their common resurrection; […]"
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dormītōrium. Doublet of dormitory and dorter.
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