prodomos

American  

[proh-doh-mos] / proʊˈdoʊ mɒs /

noun

Architecture.

plural

prodomoi

1. an open vestibule, as a pronaos.

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Etymology

Origin of prodomos

< Greek pródomos literally, before-house, equivalent to pro- pro- ² + dómos house ( dome )

Example Sentences

Guests did not sleep, as in Homer, in the prodomos, or the portico—the climate did not permit it—but in one or other hall.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

They cleared the western fa�ade and the prodomos, and discovered inscriptions giving information about other parts which they left still buried.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various