Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lavatio

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LAVA'TIO. In its primary sense, the act of washing or bathing; whence it came to be applied as a general term to things used by a person who takes a bath (Cic. Fam. ix. 5. Phaedr. iv. 4. 22. Ulp. Dig. 34. 2. 26.), as well as the bath room itself. Vitruv. v. 11.