The corpus record — Latin

baptisterium

baptisterium · n

A place for bathing

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Where it lives

Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

baptistērĭum — Lewis & Short

baptistērĭum, ii, n., = baptisth/rion.

I A place for bathing or swimming, a vessel for bathing, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 25; 2, 17, 11; Sid. Ep. 2, 2.—

II In eccl. Lat., a baptistery, a baptismal font, Sid. Ep. 4, 15.

In the wild

baptisterium Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val2.9.43
baptisterium Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val2.14.87
baptisteria Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.14.p3
baptisteria Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.11
baptisterium Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.6.25

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.