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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cryptoporticus¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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At the ends of the cryptoporticus are the remains of some more rooms.

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Delbrueck did not see that there was a real communication between the caves along the so-called cryptoporticus.

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