cēnācŭlum (caen- and coen-), i, n. [cena], orig.,
I a dining-room , usu. in an upper story; hence, an upper story , an upper room , a garret , attic (later, the dwelling of the poorer class of people): ubi cubabant cubiculum, ubi cenabant cenaculum vocitabant. Posteaquam in superiore parte cenitare coeperunt, superioris domūs universa cenacula dicta, Varr. L. L. 5, § 162 Müll.: cenacula dicuntur, ad quae scalis ascenditur (the Gr. ὑπερῷον), Paul. ex Fest. p. 54, 6 ib.; cf. Liv. 39, 14; Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96; Vitr. 2, 8, 17; Quint. 6, 3, 64; Suet. Aug. 45; 78; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 91; Juv. 10, 18; Suet. Vit. 7; Dig. 7, 1, 13, § 8; 8, 2, 41 pr.; 9, 3, 5, § 9; Inscr. Orell. 4323 sq.—
II Transf, like ὑπερῷον: maxima caeli, Enn. ap. Tert. adv. Val. 7 (Ann. v. 61 Vahl.); cf. in Plaut. humorously of the abode of Jupiter: in superiore qui habito cenaculo, Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 3.