Mineral spa

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• The term is derived from the call of the metropolis of Spa, Belgium, whose name is understood again from Roman instances, when the place turned into known as Aquae Spadanae, now and again incorrectly linked to the Latin word spargere that means to scatter, sprinkle or moisten.

• Since medieval times, illnesses caused by iron deficiency had been handled by way of consuming chalybeate (iron-bearing) spring water (in 1326, the iron-master Collin le Loup claimed a cure, whilst the spring became known as Espa, a Walloon phrase for "fountain").

• In 16th-century England, the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing have been revived at towns like Bath (not the source of the word bath), and in 1596 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian city (which he known as Spaw) discovered a chalybeate spring in Yorkshire. He built an enclosed well at what became called Harrogate, the first resort in England for ingesting medicinal waters, then in 1596 Dr. Timothy Bright after discovering a second well known as the motel The English Spaw, beginning the use of the phrase Spa as a established description.

• It is commonly claimed, in a industrial context, that the phrase is an acronym of numerous Latin phrases, together with salus in step with aquam or sanitas consistent with aquam, which means "fitness via water". This may be very unlikely: the derivation does now not seem before the early 21st century and is probably a backronym as there may be no proof of acronyms passing into the language earlier than the twentieth century; nor does it suit the regarded Roman call for the area.