cryptoporticus

English

Alternative forms

• cryptoportico

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cryptoporticus.

Noun

cryptoporticus (plural cryptoporticuses or cryptoportici)

1. (Roman architecture) A vaulted corridor or arcade at, or just below ground level; normally lit by openings in the upper part of the vault. Also a roofed promenade that is enclosed with side walls that have windows or openings instead of columns.
   • 1581, Richard Mulcaster, Positions‎^[1], London: Longmans, Green and Company, published 1888, page 87:

     The close walkes, which were called cryptoporticus were not of choice but of necessitie, when extremitie of weather would not let them walke abroad.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: criptopòrtic m
• French: cryptoportique (fr) m
• German: Kryptoportikus m or f
• Italian: criptoportico (it) m
• Latin: cryptoporticus f
• Portuguese: criptopórtico m
• Spanish: criptopórtico m

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “concealed, hidden”) +‎ -o- +‎ porticus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kryp.toˈpor.ti.kus/, [krʏpt̪ɔˈpɔrt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /krip.toˈpor.ti.kus/, [kript̪oˈpɔrt̪ikus]

Noun

cryptoporticus f (genitive cryptoporticūs); fourth declension

1. (architecture) cryptoporticus

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cryptoporticus	cryptoporticūs
genitive	cryptoporticūs	cryptoporticuum
dative	cryptoporticuī	cryptoporticibus
accusative	cryptoporticum	cryptoporticūs
ablative	cryptoporticū	cryptoporticibus
vocative	cryptoporticus	cryptoporticūs