Associations to the word «Impluvium»

Wiktionary

IMPLUVIUM, noun. (architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from the roof through the compluvium.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats