The circular frigidarium, Roman Baths (Bath), England. A frigidarium is one of the three main bath chambers of a Roman bath or thermae, namely the cold room. [1] It often contains a swimming pool. [1]

In the Baths of Diocletian, the frigidarium was the most visually impressive room, featuring especially high vaulted ceilings supported by external buttresses. Eight large columns were set around the perimeter of the main part of the room.

The meaning of FRIGIDARIUM is a room of the ancient Roman thermae furnished with a cold bath and used for cooling off.

There were three main bath chambers: the frigidarium, or cold room; the caldarium, or hot room; and the tepidarium, or lukewarm room. Between the frigidarium and the tepidarium was the great hall, roofed by an enormous vault with clerestory windows, a prototype of the vaulted naves of medieval churches. There were also large open-air swimming ...

2023年8月14日 · The main hub for information, business initiations, marriages, and intrigues was the Frigidarium. What, centuries later, are online job or singles exchanges, social networks and business lunches, began among the Romans with a cold bath.

Pl.: Frigidaria The cold room of a Roman-style bathhouse. It appeared in the first century BC and soon became the largest room in the baths. It contained one or more cold-water immersion pools (piscinae). In smaller baths, the frigidarium could also serve as dressing room. It was normally rectangular in shape and connected to the…

A frigidarium was the cold room in a Roman bath complex, featuring a cold plunge pool where bathers would cool off after time spent in the warmer rooms, such as the tepidarium (warm room) and caldarium (hot room).

The word frigidarium originates from the Latin word frigeo, which means "to be cold". The prominence of the room and its conjoining rooms showed the increase in popularity cold baths had during the early 4th century compared to hot baths.

Frigidarium. The cold bath, intended for cooling off after the hot baths or for those who preferred cold plunges.