Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

laconicum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: la-con-icum
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hot dry sweating room, next to the caldarium in the Roman baths.

Etymology

From Latin Lacōnicum (“sweating room”, literally “Spartan [bath]”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: Lacōnicum

Inflected Forms

laconica (plural)

Questions

What does laconicum mean?: A hot dry sweating room, next to the caldarium in the Roman baths.
Where does laconicum come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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