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

basin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方形蓄水池 (fāngxíng xùshuǐchí)

• Dutch: impluvium n
• Finnish: impluvium, sadevesiallas
• French: impluvium (fr)
• German: Impluvium
• Italian: impluvio (it)
• Russian: имплювий (ru) (impljuvij)
• Serbo-Croatian: impluvij (sh)
• Slovene: impluvij (sl)

References

Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei [1]

French

Noun

impluvium m (plural impluviums)

1. impluvium

Further reading

• “impluvium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /imˈplu.u̯i.um/, [ɪmˈpɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈplu.vi.um/, [imˈpluːvium]

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).

	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

• impluviātus

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 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