apodyterium

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion), from ἀποδύω (apodúō, “strip oneself”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌæpədaɪˈtɪəɹi.əm/

apodyterium (plural apodyteriums or apodyteria)

1. (architecture, historical) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.

From Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.dyˈteː.ri.um/, [äpɔd̪ʏˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.diˈte.ri.um/, [äpod̪iˈt̪ɛːrium]

apodytērium n (genitive apodytēriī or apodytērī); second declension

1. changing room

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• English: apodyterium
• Italian: apoditerio

• “apodyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apodyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apodyterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “apodyterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apodyterium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin