cryptoporticus

[ krip-tuh-pawr-ti-kuhs, -pohr- ]

noun,plural cryp·to·por·ti·cus.
  1. a covered passage, as one underground, lighted on one side.

  2. a portico at the entrance to a crypt.

Origin of cryptoporticus

1
1675–85; <Latin: covered passage; see crypto-, portico

Words Nearby cryptoporticus

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How to use cryptoporticus in a sentence

  • On the south side there is a cryptoporticus and a reservoir for water which was supplied by a branch of the Claudian aqueduct.

    Old Rome | Robert Burn
  • At the ends of the cryptoporticus are the remains of some more rooms.

    Old Rome | Robert Burn
  • Delbrueck did not see that there was a real communication between the caves along the so-called cryptoporticus.