English

Alternative forms

• cryptoportico

Noun

cryptoporticus ‎(plural cryptoporticuses)

1. (Roman architecture) A vaulted corridor or arcade at, or just below ground level; normally lit by openings in the upper part of the vault. Also a roofed promenade that is enclosed with side walls that have windows or openings instead of columns.
   • 1581, Richard Mulcaster, Positions, London: Longmans, Green and Company, published 1888, page 87:

     The close walkes, which were called cryptoporticus were not of choice but of necessitie, when extremitie of weather would not let them walke abroad.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From crypta +‎ porticus.

Noun

cryptoporticus f ‎(genitive porticus); fourth declension

1. (architecture) cryptoporticus

Declension

Fourth declension.