impluvium

Latin impluvium, from impluit (“rains upon”)

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.

Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei

impluvium m (plural impluviums)

1. impluvium

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

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

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

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.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• impluviātus

• compluvium
• impluit

• → English: impluvium
• → Italian: impluvio

• “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