The corpus record — Latin

vaporatio

vaporatio · f

a steaming

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

văpōrātĭo — Lewis & Short

văpōrātĭo, ōnis, f.vaporo,

I a steaming, reeking, steam, vapor (post-Aug.): inundantium aquarum, Sen. Q. N. 6, 11: urinae impubium, Plin. 28, 6, 18, § 65: balinearum, a steam-bath, vapor-bath, id. 28, 4, 14, § 55.—Esp., a fomentation, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 17, 171 al.

In the wild

vaporationem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.4.p8
vaporatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.6.p4

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.