impluvium

== English == === Etymology === Latin impluvium, from impluit (“rains upon”) === Noun === 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 ==== === References === Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei [1] == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === impluvium m (plural impluviums) impluvium === Further reading === “impluvium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Etymology === From impluit (“it rains upon”) +‎ -ium, from in + pluit (“it rains”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪmˈpɫʊ.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [imˈpluː.vi.um] === Noun === 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 ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== impluviātus ==== Related terms ==== compluvium impluit ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: impluvi → English: impluvium → French: impluvium → Italian: impluvio === References === “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, 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