portico
pronunciation
How to pronounce portico in British English:
UK [ˈpɔ:tɪkəʊ]
How to pronounce portico in American English:
US [ˈpɔrtɪkoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
Word Origin
- portico
- portico: see porch
- portico (n.)
- c. 1600, from Italian portico, from Latin porticus "colonnade, arcade, covered walk, porch," from porta "gate" (see port (n.1)). Especially of the Painted Porch in Athens.
Example
- 1. Portico gives you hotel experience in a big nice luxury villa .
- 2. This building has a classical roman portico , made of concrete , at the entrance .
- 3. Outside , beneath a portico jewelled as a dragonfly , silhouettes talked in a husky language then returned to the concert within .
- 4. Ndiipp worked with the california digital library , portico and stanford university on the initial production release of jhove2 .
- 5. Its alcoves , its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others .