bagnio

[ ban-yoh, bahn- ]

noun

, plural bagn·ios.

1. a brothel.
2. (especially in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house.
3. a prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire.

bagnio

/ ˈbɑːnjəʊ /

noun

1. a brothel
2. obsolete.
   an oriental prison for slaves
3. obsolete.
   an Italian or Turkish bathhouse

Word History and Origins

Origin of bagnio¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Italian bagno, from Latin balneum, balineum, from Greek balaneîon “bathroom, bath”

Word History and Origins

Origin of bagnio¹

C16: from Italian bagno , from Latin balneum bath, from Greek balaneion

Example Sentences

He offered to purchase a ship in Algiers, and pretend to turn merchant, by which means, he said, he could contrive to get us out of the bagnio and the country.

From Project Gutenberg

One half come to prosecute their debaucheries, so openly that it would degrade a bagnio.

From Project Gutenberg

And one thinks of all the unsavory "assignations" at these old bagnio places.

From Project Gutenberg

The price of a bath, paid to the keeper of the public bagnio.

From Project Gutenberg

Any place where men have builded a jail, a bagnio, a gallows, a morgue, a church, a hospital, a saloon, and laid out a cemetery—hence a center of life.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bordello
• red-light district