aumatium

Unknown, perhaps from Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”). Attested only in Petronius’s Satyricon, in a late gloss by Fulgentius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈmaː.ti.ũː]

aumātium n (genitive aumātiī); second declension

1. a public toilet in a theatre or circus

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ommatidium

• “aumatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aumatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aumatium” on page 216/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)