impluvium

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word impluvium. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word impluvium, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say impluvium in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word impluvium you have here. The definition of the word impluvium will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofimpluvium, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

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

French

Noun

impluvium m (plural impluviums)

  1. impluvium

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

impluvium n (genitive impluviī or impluvī); 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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative impluvium impluvia
Genitive impluviī
impluvī1 		impluviōrum
Dative impluviō impluviīs
Accusative impluvium impluvia
Ablative impluviō impluviīs
Vocative impluvium impluvia

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

Derived terms

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 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
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia