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cryptoporticus

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [kryp.tɔˈpɔr.tɪ.kʊs][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [krip.toˈpɔr.ti.kus][1]

Forms

cryptoporticus f (genitive cryptoporticūs); fourth declension[1]

Etymology

Its first part is borrowed from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”), its second porticus (“colonnade”): a hybrid compound.[2][3][4][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from the Younger Pliny,[5] who describes a covered gallery in his villa almost as large as a public building.[4][3]

Semantic evolution

It is a covered gallery, cloister or vaulted passage; the TLL notes that it means much the same as crypta.[2][3][4]

Timeline

  • 61/62–before 117 AD – The Younger Pliny of his villa.[4][5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A covered gallery, cloister, vaulted passage.[2][3][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de