• Sanitarium

    Origin

    From New Latin sānitārium, from sānitās ("health").

    Full definition of sanitarium

    Noun

    sanitarium

    (plural sanitariums or sanitaria)
    1. (US) Alternative spelling of sanatorium
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. … When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

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