CAVAEDIUM  , in See also:

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

architecture, the Latin name for the central See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall or See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court within a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

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

house, of which five See also:

• SPECIES

species are described by See also:

• VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO)

Vitruvius . (I) The Tuscanicum responds to the greater number apparently of those at See also:

• POMPEII

Pompeii, in which the timbers of the roof are framed together, so as to leave an open space in the centre, known as the See also:

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

compluvium; it was through this opening that all the See also:

• LIGHT

light was received, not only in the hall itself, but in the rooms See also:

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

round . The See also:

• RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain from the roof was collected in gutters round the compluvium, and discharged from thence into a tank or open See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin in the See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor called the See also:

• IMPLUVIUM

impluvium . (2) In the tetrastylon additional support was required in consequence of the dimensions of the hall; this was given by columns placed at the four angles of the impluvium . (3) Corinthian is the See also:

• TERM

term given to the species where additional columns were required . (4) In the displuviatum the See also:

• ROOFS

roofs, instead of sloping down towards the compluvium, sloped outwards, the gutters being on the See also:

• OUTER

outer walls; there was still an opening in the roof, and an impluvium to catch the rain falling through . This species of roof, Vitruvius states, is constantly in want of repair, as the See also:

• WATER

water does not easilyrun away, owing. to the stoppage in the rain-water pipes . (3) The testudinatum was employed when the hall was small and another floor was built over it; no example of this type has been found at Pompeii, and only one of the cavaedium displuviatum .