different between compluvim vs impluvium

English

Etymology

Latin impluvium, from impluit (“rains upon”)

Noun

impluvium (plural impluviums or impluvia)

1. (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]

Latin

Etymology

From impluit (“it rains upon”), from in + pluit (“it rains”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im?plu.u?i.um/, [?m?p???u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im?plu.vi.um/, [im?plu?vium]

Noun

impluvium n (genitive impluvi? or impluv?); second declension

1. 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

• impluvi?tus

Related terms

• compluvium
• impluit

Descendants

• English: 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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