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A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from the roof through the compluvium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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Latin impluvium, from impluit (“rains upon”)
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
impluvi
— basin
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Chinese Mandarin:
方形蓄水池
(fāngxíng xùshuǐchí)
— basin
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Dutch:
impluvium
— basin
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Finnish:
impluvium
— basin
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Finnish:
sadevesiallas
— basin
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French:
impluvium
— basin
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German:
Impluvium
— basin
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Italian:
impluvio
— basin
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Russian:
имплювий
(impljuvij)
— basin
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Serbo-Croatian:
impluvij
— basin
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Slovene:
impluvij
— basin