Definition of Compluvium. Meaning of Compluvium. Synonyms of Compluvium

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Definition of Compluvium

Compluvium
Compluvium Com*plu"vi*um, n. [L.] (Arch.) A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

Meaning of Compluvium from wikipedia

- ancient Roman house, which usually had a central opening in the roof (compluvium) and a rainwater pool (impluvium) beneath it. The cavaedium p****ively...
- water-catchment pool system meant to capture rain-water flowing from the compluvium, or slanted roof. Often placed "inside", instead of "outside", a building...
- opening called the compluvium in which rain could come, draining inwards from the slanted tiled roof. Directly below the compluvium was the impluvium....
- are also instances of lightwell use by the Romans, the impluvium and compluvium shaft. In traditional Chinese architecture, the 天井 (sky well) also exists...
- Butterfly roof or trough roof (rare) Prow or "flying" Gable roof Monitor roof Compluvium roof Displuvium roof (rare) Hemisperical dome (on a wall) Sail vault Compound...
- "confluence", where rivers' water (or rain water) flow into one place (i.e., a compluvium). The city boundaries have been inhabited since the Chalcolithic phase...
- are beautifully decorated. The opening in the ceiling above the pool (compluvium) called for some means of support for the roof, and it is here where one...
- prodire solet in compluvium., 'thus according to our rites he who wishes to swear an oath by Dius Fidius he as a rule walks to the compluvium (an unroofed...
- aspects of Dius Fidius' oath ritual, such as requiring the open sky, the compluvium of private residences and the fact the temple of Sancus had no roof, implied...
- plumbaginous, plumbago, plumbeous, plummet, plunge, replumb pluvia pluvi- rain compluvium, displuviate, impluvium, plover, pluvial, pluviosity pōculum pōcul- cup...