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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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IMPLUVIUM , the Latin See also:

TERM

term for the sunk See also:

PART

part of the See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor in 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:

Greek or See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

house, which was contrived to receive the See also:

WATER

water passing through the See also:

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

compluvium (q.v.) of the roof. The impluvium was generally in See also:

MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble and sunk about a See also:

FOOT

foot below the floor of the atrium.

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