porticus

porticus ūs, f

porta, a covered walk between columns, colonnade, piazza, arcade, gallery, porch, portico : Nostin porticum apud macellum?T.: inambulare in porticu: in amplis porticibus, V.: me porticus excepit, H.: porticus, in quā Gestetur dominus, Iu.—Plur, a shed, gallery (to protect soldiers in a siege), Cs.— The Porch, Stoa, school of the Stoics : fulcire porticum Stoicorum, i. e. the Stoic philosophy .