Extensive Definition
Sudatorium, the term in architecture for the
vaulted sweating-room (sudor, sweat) of the Roman thermae, referred to in Vitruvius (v. 2),
and there called the concamerata sudatio.
In order to obtain the great heat required, the
whole wall was lined with vertical terra-cotta
flue pipes of rectangular
section, placed side by side, through which the hot air and the
smoke from the suspensura passed to an exit
in the roof.
sudatorium in Danish: Sudatorium
sudatorium in French: Sudatorium
sudatorium in Portuguese: Sudatorium
sudatorium in Swedish:
Sudatorium