impluvium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin impluvium, from impluit (“rains upon”)
Noun[edit]
impluvium (plural impluviums or impluvia)
- (architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from the roof through the compluvium.
Translations[edit]
basin
References[edit]
Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei [1]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
impluvium m (plural impluviums)
Further reading[edit]
- “impluvium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From impluit (“it rains upon”) + -ium, from in + pluit (“it rains”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈplu.u̯i.um/, [ɪmˈpɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈplu.vi.um/, [imˈpluːvium]
Noun[edit]
impluvium n (genitive impluviī or impluvī); second declension
- a rectangular courtyard basin or pool into which rain water is collected by a compluvium above it.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | impluvium | impluvia |
Genitive | impluviī impluvī1 |
impluviōrum |
Dative | impluviō | impluviīs |
Accusative | impluvium | impluvia |
Ablative | impluviō | impluviīs |
Vocative | impluvium | impluvia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References[edit]
- “impluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impluvium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- impluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “impluvium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “impluvium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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