Latin

Noun

porticus f ‎(genitive porticus); fourth declension

1. colonnade, arcade
2. portico

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

• German: Portikus
• French: porche, portique
• Italian: portico
• Portuguese: pórtico
• Spanish: pórtico

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “porticus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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