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語源

Borrowed from Latin cryptoporticus.

名詞

cryptoporticus (複数形 cryptoporticuses または cryptoportici)

1. (Roman architecture) A vaulted corridor or arcade at, or just below ground level; normally lit by openings in the upper part of the vault. Also a roofed promenade that is enclosed with side walls that have windows or openings instead of columns.
   • 1581, Richard Mulcaster, Positions‎^[1], London: Longmans, Green and Company, published 1888, page 87:

     The close walkes, which were called cryptoporticus were not of choice but of necessitie, when extremitie of weather would not let them walke abroad.