COMPLUVIUM (from Lat. compluere, to flow together, i.e. in reference to the rain being collected and falling through)

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COMPLUVIUM (from Lat. compluere, to flow together, i.e. in reference to the rain being collected and falling through) , in

architecture

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

, the Latin

term

TERM

for the open space left in the roof of the

atrium

ATRIUM (either from ater, black, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)

of a

Roman

ROMAN

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

for

lighting

LIGHTING

it and the rooms

round

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

(see

CAVAEDIUM

CAVAEDIUM

).

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