cryptoporticus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cryptoporticus, cryptoporticus:
Feminine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cloister, covered gallery/passage; vault, hall (L+S);
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- G
Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Cubicula obductis velis opaca nec tamen obscura facio. Cryptoporticus quoque adopertis inferioribus fenestris tantum umbrae quantum luminis habet..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...facies, hic usus a fronte. A latere aestiva cryptoporticus in edito posita, quae non adspicere vineas sed tangere..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...villae et hortus alius pinguis et rusticus. Hinc cryptoporticus prope publici operis extenditur. Utrimque fenestrae, a mari plures..."