dormitorium

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