The corpus record — Latin

lavatio

lavatio · f

a washing, bathing, bath

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Where it lives

De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

lăvātĭo — Lewis & Short

lăvātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a washing, bathing, bath.

I In abstr.: quid ea messis attinet ad meam lavationem? Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 4; Cic. ap. Col. 12, 3, 2: lavatio calida et pueris et senibus apta est, Cels. 1, 3, § 71; 79; cf.: boves lavatione calidae aquae traduntur pinguescere, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 178.—

II Transf.

A Bathing apparatus: ut lavatio parata sit, Cic. Fam. 9, 5, 3: argentea, Phaedr. 4, 5, 22; Dig. 34, 2, 25, § 10. —

B A bathing-place, bathing-room, bath: in versura porticus frigida lavatio, quam Graeci loutro\n vocitant, Vitr. 5, 11; Dig. 19, 2, 30, § 1; Inscr. Grut. 444, 8; 473, 1 al.

In the wild

lavatio Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.11.2
lavationi Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.6.2
lavationem Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.11.2
lavatio Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p10
lavatione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.45.p1
lavationibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.6

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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