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

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

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

architecture, the Latin See also:

TERM

term for the open space See also:

LEFT

left in the roof of the See also:

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)

atrium of a See also:

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LIGHTING

lighting it and 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 (see See also:

CAVAEDIUM

CAVAEDIUM) .

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