peristylum

Borrowed from Latin peristylum.

peristylum

1. (in ancient Roman contexts) A peristyle.

   Synonym: peristylium

   • 1868, A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, 6th edition, London: John Murray, page 263, column 2:

     A particularity in this house is the irregular form of the peristylum, and that from each of the columns that surround it projects a small bronze water-pipe, forming with the fountain and small waterfall a handsome system of artificial waterworks.

   • 1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company, page 14:

     The women gathered together about the little font in the centre of the peristylum, and debated together in low tones.

   • 2009, Michelle Moran, Cleopatra's Daughter, London: Quercus, →ISBN, page 74:

     We crossed the atrium and reached another open-air space, the peristylum, where bronze sculptures peered from the shadows.

   • 2013, Joan Wolf, Daughter of Jerusalem, Brentwood, T.N.: Worthy Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:

     The porter must have seen me gawking, for he said pleasantly, "This is the atrium, the room Lady Julia uses for entertainment. The next room, the peristylum, is for the family."

Borrowed from Ancient Greek περίστυλον (perístulon).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pe.risˈtyː.lum/, [pɛrɪs̠ˈt̪yːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.risˈti.lum/, [perisˈt̪iːlum]

peristȳlum n (genitive peristȳlī); second declension

1. peristyle (inner courtyard surrounded by columns)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• peristȳlium

• → French: péristyle
  • → English: peristyle

• “peristylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peristylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peristylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “peristylum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers