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dormitorium (plural dormitoria or dormitoriums)

1. (rare) A dormitory.
   • 1868, G[eorge] V[alentine] Cox, “General ‘Recollections’ Resumed. a.d. 1844.”, in Recollections of Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 319:

     There is something very pleasing and charitable in the idea, that ‘all who call themselves Christians’ should have one common κοιμητήριον, their dormitorium or resting-place, where they should lie down together, at peace in death, though separated in their lifetime, and awaiting their common resurrection; […]

   • 1926, “William Jacoby, Jr.”, in Clarence W. Rhoda, editor, The Ciarla, volume 34, Allentown, Pa.: The Junior Class, Muhlenberg College, →OCLC, page 93:

     To Bill the proverbial statement, “behind locked doors,” is a reality, particularly when he is locked out, and his favorite ejaculation and demand in such a predicament is “Open this d⁠—⁠n door.” But when there resounded the voice of the fair occupant (?), Bill, like the ground-hog when he sees his shadow, withdrew to his dormitorium.

   • 1973, Frank Zappa, “Zomby Woof”, in Over-Nite Sensation, performed by the Mothers of Invention, Los Angeles, Calif.: DiscReet Records, →OCLC:

     If I raid your dormitorium don’t try to remain aloof / I might snatch you up screamin’ through the window all naked / And do it to you up on the roof, don't mess with the zomby woof

   • 2006 August, Julian May, Sorcerer’s Moon (The Boreal Moon Tale; 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, pages 94, 257, 310, and 324:

     “I would like the best quarters in your dormitorium,” Master Lund said in a peremptory manner as he was greeted by the noble host. […] The place was mean and miserable, but it had been the only hostelry with room for them in its communal dormitorium. […] Most of the resident warriors were now gone, and two large timber-built annex wings of the structure had been closed off, leaving open only the original stone strong house with its kitchen, common room, private dining hall, and austere dormitorium chambers. […] Unlike the aroused Cathran and Tarnian adepts in the dormitorium, he made no effort to approach the scene of the carnage.

   • 2010, James Swallow, “The Returned”, in Christian Dunn, editor, Legends of the Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Black Library, →ISBN, page 241:

     Zurus exited his sleeping cell and found only rays of weak sunlight reaching down the passages of the dormitoria; and outside, a break in the clouds, and a silence in the air.

   • 2011, V[ance] Briceland, The Nascenza Conspiracy (The Cassaforte Chronicles; III), Woodbury, Minn.: Flux, →ISBN, pages 49, 57, and 192:

     Petro was reminded, in fact, of a night several years ago in the insula dormitorium when Pom di Angeli had used a pair of scissors to shear the top of a sleeping Adrio’s head, where it hung over the edge of his bunk. […] It is my misfortune that the stairwell nearest my dormitorium and I did not see eye to eye as I rushed to my lecture last week. […] Sometimes in the winter, when the fires were roaring in the dormitoriums, the boys would sneak a covered pan from the kitchen and fill it with dried kernels of grano, heating them in oil over the embers until they popped. […] They were so loud and raucous that, for a few seconds, he imagined he was back in his own bed in the dormitorium, listening through the open windows to the sparrows squabbling over crusts of bread thrown from the buttery.

   • 2016, Arno Schmidt, translated by John E[dwin] Woods, “Book v. Franziska⹀Nameh”, in Bottom’s Dream, →ISBN, page 655, column 2:

     (While I really could resist nó longer; and Me off to my dormitorium)

   • 2018, Jasper Fforde, Early Riser‎, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

     The train was busy with Mothballers and overwinterers, trying to get to their relevant Dormitoria or work as status dictated. […] She told us about a Pantry Heist over at the Cary Grant Dormitorium. […] The door to the Ivor Novello Dormitorium opened and Logan stepped out, paused, then took a deep breath of the chill morning air.

   1. An ancient Roman dormitory.
      • 1881, William James Audsley, George Ashdown Audsley, “Atrium”, in Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, →OCLC, pages 144 and 149:

        The several apartments, I, M, are the cubicula or dormitoria, and those used by the family, termed exedrae and oeci. […] G […] and H are cubicula, the smaller of which are the dormitoria.

      • 1900, M[ildred] A[nne] R[osalie] Tuker, Hope Malleson, “The Catacombs”, in Handbook to Christian and Ecclesiastical Rome, part I (The Christian Monuments of Rome), London: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, pages 382 and 384:

        Hence we see their necropolis called Dormitorium (κοιμητήριον), and S. Jerome expresses the sentiment of the faithful and the Fathers both of East and West, when he says in his letter to Theodosius “in Christianis mors non est mors, sed dormitio, sed somnus.” “Among Christians death is not death, but a taking of rest, a sleep.” […] The “Apostolic Constitutions” say: “Assemble in the dormitoria, reading the holy books, and singing for the martyrs who are fallen asleep, and for all the saints from the beginning of the world, and for your brethren that are asleep in the Lord, and offer the acceptable Eucharist, the representation of the regal body of Christ, both in your churches and in the dormitoria; and in the funerals of those who have fallen asleep, follow them with the singing of psalms, if they were faithful in the Lord.”

      • 1982 March, Jack Mertes, chapter XXXV, in Empress of Desire, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 275–276:

        In Agrippina’s dormitoria the glimmer of a bronze lamp illuminated the marbled chamber with eerie, undulating shadows. […] Julia Agrippina shivered despite the stifling warmth of the dormitoria.

      • 2001, Jim Humberd, Emmy Humberd, “Ancient Camper in Ancient Rome”, in Invitation to Italy: A “Why-Not-Travel” Rather Than a “How-to-Travel” Essay (Jim and Emmy’s “Invitation to … …” Series), La Quinta, Calif.: Em-J Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 17 (More Roma), page 183:

        Since the “motel” of the day was often crowded, quite often was a house of prostitution, and at best was dirty, the dormitoria provided a guaranteed place to sleep.

   2. A monastic dormitory.
      • 1975, Christopher Martin, “Reconnaissances”, in Striking That Rock: Sydney Carter and Donald Swann in an Exploration of the Holy Land, London: S.P.C.K., →ISBN, page 51:

        Here without question was a monastic settlement. It was hard to evade the Latin names (as if Roman devotion had invented the monastic life): the refectorium, with its lector’s reading-stand, the capella, the lavatorium, the dormitoria, they were all very recognizably there.

      • 2008, Alan Gordon, The Moneylender of Toulouse (A Fools’ Guild Mystery; 7), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN, pages 115, 146, and 149:

        As the monks followed a path that took them to their dormitorium, I trotted over to the side to watch the black parade. […] Donatus headed toward the dormitorium with most of the brothers, but Vitalis separated from the pack and went out the south entrance. […] I waited until he was about to round the corner of the church, then I quickly followed. He was walking briskly toward the dormitorium, pounding his fist into his palm.

      • 2012, Tad C. Rhoden, “Play Dumb”, in Don’t Call Me Hobbit: A Novel, Bradenton, Fla.: BookLocker.com, Inc., →ISBN, pages 68–69:

        Barnab, find them accommodations in the dormitoriums and arrange for their ablutions. […] You will find a group lavatorium and water closet at the far end of the dormitorium.

名詞

dormītōrium n (genitive dormītōriī or dormītōrī); second declension

1. a sleeping-room, dormitory

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生した語

参照

• “dormitorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "dormitorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “dormitorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dormitorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin