implŭvĭum — Lewis & Short
implŭvĭum (inpl-), ĭi, n.impluo.
I Lit., a skylight, the opening in the roof of the atrium in a Roman house through which the smoke issued, so called because it admitted the rain (cf. compluvium):
per inpluvium intro spectant,Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 4 Brix ad loc.:
nescio quis inspectavit per nostrum inpluvium intus apud nos Philocomasium,id. ib. v. 19:
per inpluvium huc despexi,id. ib. 2, 3, 16:
in alienas tegulas venisse clanculum per inpluvium,Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 41:
anguis per inpluvium decidit de tegulis,id. Phorm. 4, 4, 26; cf.:
utin' inpluvium erat induta?Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 43:
vincula per impluvium in tegulas subduci,Gell. 10, 15, 8.—
II Transf.
A The square basin in the atrium into which the rain-water was received: si relictum erat in medio ut lucem caperet, deorsum quo impluebat dictum impluvium, susum qua compluebat, compluvium, Varr. L. L. 5, § 161 Müll.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 108 Müll.:
rus signa, quae nunc ad impluvium tuum stant,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61:
columnae ad impluvium,id. ib. 2, 1, 56, § 147.—
B The uncovered central space in the atrium:
palmam enatam in inpluvio suo T. Marcus Figulus nuntiabat,Liv. 43, 13, 6.