balneal

Sep. 24th, 2010 07:13 am
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balneal (BAL-nee-uhl) - adj., of, pertaining to, or located in baths or bathing.


Also available in the even rarer alternate form balneary -- which looks too silly to use. But balneal? -- it makes me want to run the tap, slip into the warm suds with a loofah, and warble several rounds of "In the Bath" by Flanders & Swann. (Having a balneal bacchanal is in your court, however.) As for the word itself, it was coined around 1640 from Latin balneum, bath, itself from Greek balaneion, bath, of unknown origin.

---L.
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