abaton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton), nominalized neuter form of ἄβατος (ábatos, “inaccessible”).

abaton (plural abatons)

1. (Ancient Greece) An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
   • 1912, James J. Walsh, “Great Physicians in Psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy‎^[1], New York: D. Appleton and Company:

     There were a series of bathing houses for hydropathy. The abatons, lofty and airy sleeping chambers with their southern sides and open colonnade, are singularly like the open balconies of our tuberculosis sanatoria.

2. (Egyptology) Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
3. (Greek Orthodoxy) An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.

• adytum

• adyton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• botana

• IPA^(key): /aˈbaton/

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• Rhymes: -aton
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ton

abaton

1. accusative singular of abato

From Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton).

• IPA^(key): [ˈabatɔn]
• Hyphenation: aba‧ton

abaton (plural abaton-abaton)

1. (historical, architecture) abaton

• “abaton”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• abato (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton), nominalized neuter form of ἄβατος (ábatos, “inaccessible”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba.ton/
• Rhymes: -abaton
• Hyphenation: à‧ba‧ton

abaton m (plural abata)

1. abaton

• abaton in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Banato, banato

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton).

• IPA^(key): /aˈba.tɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atɔn
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ton

abaton m inan

1. (Ancient Greece, architecture) abaton
   • 2014, Krzysztof Sobczak, “O rozumieniu śmierci w antyku greckim i rzymskim”, in Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo‎^[2], number 20, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie, →ISSN, pages 479–502:

     Po zachodzie słońca udawali się do abatonu, gdzie następowała inkubacja, […]

     After sunset they made their way to the abaton, where incubation took place, […]

   • 2020, Aneta Liwerska, “Inskrypcja Apellasa jako źródło poznania charakteru opieki nad pacjentem w asklepiejonie epidauryjskim w II wne”, in Klio. Czasopismo poświęcone dziejom Polski i powszechnym‎^[3], volume 52, number 1, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, →ISSN, pages 3–30:

      […], gdzie dana aktywność się odbywała; mamy więc tutaj ocieranie się o ścianę w łaźni, korzystanie z huśtawek na górnym portyku i nacieranie się w abatonie.

      […], where the given activity took place; so we have here rubbing against the wall in the bathhouse, using the swings on the upper portico, and massing in the abaton.

• ábaton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton).

abaton m (uncountable)

1. abaton (enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept)