porticus

From Latin porticus.

porticus c

1. (architecture) portico

From porta (“gate, entrance”) +‎ -icus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ti.kus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ti.kus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ikus]

porticus f (genitive porticūs); fourth declension

1. colonnade, arcade
2. portico, porch

Fourth-declension noun.

• “porticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• porticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to undertake a contract for building a portico: redimere, conducere porticum aedificandam (Div. 2. 21. 47)
    
• “porticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “porticus”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “porticus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin