dormitoria

Noun

dormitorium (plural dormitoria or dormitoriums)

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