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Originally Posted by papageno
According to my dictionary, pompa as "pump" comes from French and not from Latin (I don't even know if Romans had pumps in the modern sense).
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I would assume that they did, because they brought in water from aquaducts, but they had baths and must have had pumps to bring the water up. Somewhere on the net it said that there was a "pump room" at Bath, but I don't know if that means "in the modern sense." Certainly they didn't have electric pumps.
