compluvium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compluvium.
Noun
compluvium (plural compluvia)
- (architecture) A space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
- 1881, William Audsley, Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts: Aquila to Baptisterium:
- In the centre of the floor of the atrium a portion was sunk for the reception of rain water; this was termed the impluvium; and above it an opening of similar dimensions was left in the ceiling or roof, termed the compluvium.
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Translations
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Latin
FWOTD – 29 January 2014
Etymology
From compluit (“it flows together, it rains upon”) + -ium, from cum + pluit (“it rains”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈplu.u̯i.um/, [kɔmˈpɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈplu.vi.um/, [komˈpluːvium]
Noun
compluvium n (genitive compluviī or compluvī); second declension
- a rectangular open space in the middle of a Roman house, which collected rain water falling on the surrounding roof and conducted it to a basin (impluvium) placed below.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | compluvium | compluvia |
| Genitive | compluviī compluvī1 | compluviōrum |
| Dative | compluviō | compluviīs |
| Accusative | compluvium | compluvia |
| Ablative | compluviō | compluviīs |
| Vocative | compluvium | compluvia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- compluviātus
Related terms
- impluit
- impluvium
- pluit
Descendants
- Catalan: compluvi
- → English: compluvium
- Italian: compluvio
- Portuguese: complúvio
- Spanish: compluvio
References
- “compluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- compluvium 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)
- compluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “compluvium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “compluvium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin