different between dwelling vs compluvium

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dw?.l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

From Middle English dwelling, duelling (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

Noun

dwelling (plural dwellings)

1. A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode

Derived terms

• dwellinghouse, dwelling house
• dwelling-place
• lake dwelling (“prehistoric structure”)

Translations

References

• dwelling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From dwell +? -ing.

Verb

dwelling

1. present participle of dwell

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compluvium

Noun

compluvium (plural compluvia)

1. (architecture) A space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

Latin

Etymology

From compluit (“it flows together, it rains upon”), from cum + pluit (“it rains”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

compluvium n (genitive compluvi? or compluv?); second declension

1. 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).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• compluvi?tus

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, 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