This feature of church design originated in the late
Roman period and continued to appear in those built on the
European continent and, in
Anglo-Saxon England, until the 8th century.[4]
Notes
^Most Latin terms ending in -us are
masculine and form their
nominativeplural with -i but porticus is a
femininefourth-declension noun whose plural is also porticus, sometimes differentiated with a
macron as porticūs.[1] The English plural form is porticuses, when the term is not simply translated as portico.
References
Citations
^Lewis, C.T.; Short, C., eds. (n.d.).
"porticus". A Latin Dictionary. www.perseus.tufts.edu.
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Cherry, B. (1981) [1976], "Ecclesiastical architecture", in Wilson, D.M. (ed.), The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge University Press, pp. 151–200,
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