cavaedium

From Latin cavaedium.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈviː.di.əm/
• Hyphenation: ca‧vae‧di‧um

cavaedium (plural cavaedia)

1. (architecture) The central hall or court within an Ancient Roman house.

• atrium

Contraction of cavum aedium (literally “the hollow of the house”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈwae̯.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈvɛː.d̪i.um]

cavaedium n (genitive cavaediī or cavaedī); second declension

1. (architecture) cavaedium, atrium, central hall

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• English: cavaedium
• Italian: cavedio

• “cavaedium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cavaedium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.