Portico Definition

pôrtĭ-kō
porticoes, porticos
noun
A porch or covered walk, consisting of a roof supported by columns, often at the entrance or across the front of a building; colonnade.
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Noun

Singular:
portico
Plural:
porticoes, porticos

Origin of Portico

  • Italian from Latin porticus from porta gate per-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch"), from porta (“gate").

    From Wiktionary

Portico Sentence Examples

  • It is a brick edifice with a portico on the ground floor and a large hall on the upper.

  • The present fabric is largely modern; while the portico was designed by Inigo Jones.

  • The abbot's palace has a fine Renaissance portico, and contains an interesting museum of local antiquities.

  • At the other end of the great hall is a similar portico facing outwards; and between this and the doors the hall is divided into three aisles by rows of Ionic columns.

  • Among the first of these benefactions was the great gymnasium of Ptolemy, built in the neighbourhood of the Agora about 250 B.C. Successive princes of the dynasty of Pergamum interested themselves in the adorn western entrance being the well-known Doric portico of Athena Archegetis with an inscription recording its erection from donations of Julius Caesar and Augustus.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOR

Words Ending With

OCOICO

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Words Starting With P and Ending With O

Starts With P & Ends With OStarts With PO & Ends With OStarts With P & Ends With CO

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With O