cavaedium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin cavaedium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəˈviː.di.əm/ Hyphenation: ca‧vae‧di‧um === Noun === cavaedium (plural cavaedia) (architecture) The central hall or court within an Ancient Roman house. ==== Synonyms ==== atrium == Latin == === Etymology === Contraction of cavum aedium (literally “the hollow of the house”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈwae̯.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈvɛː.di.um] === Noun === cavaedium n (genitive cavaediī or cavaedī); second declension (architecture) cavaedium, atrium, central hall ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== English: cavaedium Italian: cavedio === References === “cavaedium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cavaedium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.