Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Thermulae

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

THER'MULAE. Diminutive of THERMAE; the diminutive, however, not bearing the sense of inferiority or disparagement, but, as is frequently the case, intended to convey a notion of extreme perfection.