[594] lavācrum, ī, n. (lavo), das Bad, a) = Badeort, Badezimmer, lavacri lacus (Behälter, Bassins), Auson. Mos. 341: lav. Herculeum, Auson. ordo urb. nobil. (XVIIII) 41. p. 99 Schenkl: lavacra nitida, Gell. 1, 2, 2: lavacra nobilia, Paneg. inc. Constant. 21, 3: lavacra in modum provinciarum exstructa, Amm. 16, 10, 14: lavacra constituere, condere, Aur. Vict. epit. 5, 3 u. 13, 6: lavacra, quae corruerant, exstruere, Eumen. grat. act. 4, 4: lavacra pro sexibus separavit, Spart. Hadr. 18, 10. – u. = Schwemme (für Tiere), ascendere de lavacro, Vulg. cant. cantic. 4, 2. – b) = Badewasser, lav. balnearum publicartim, Corp. inscr. Lat. 10, 3678: lav. calidum, Auson. epigr. 107, 11. p. 224 Schenkl: lavacra ignea (heiße), Cael. Aur. de morb. chron. 1, 1, 17: lavacra marina, Seebäder, Min. Fel. 2, 3: avidus splendere lavacris, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 410: [594] ex arbitrio lavacrum petere, Apul. met. 5, 2: lavacro fatigationem sui diluit, ibid. 5, 3: nec lavacro nec ullā denique refectione recreata, ibid. 5, 5. – insbes. = die Taufe, lav. immortale, Auson. edyll. 1, 21. p. 31, 1 Schenkl: lav. aquae, Wassertaufe, Vulg. Ephes. 5, 26: lav. vitale, salutare, Cypr. de habit. virg. 2 u. 23: lav. mysticum, Prud. perist. 6, 29. – übtr., die Abwaschung, Sühnung, cotidiana lavacra, Augustin. serm. 389, 2. – / lăvăcrum gemessen, Alcim. Avit. poëm. 5, 714. Ven. Fort carm. 5, 5, 96.