cupola

     

In architecture, a cupola or lantern is a raially symmetrical ornamental structure (often dome-shaped or quadrilateral) located on top of a larger roof or dome, often used as a lookout or to admit light and provide ventilation. The word comes, through Italian, from the lower Latin cupula (classical Latin cupella from the Greek kupellon) small cup (lat. cupa) indicating a vault resembling an upside down cup.

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  • All right. See the dome, players? Now see the little "domey" thing on top of the dome? That's called this, from the Latin for tub
  • From Latin for "little tub", it's a dome-like structure often found atop a roof
  • This word for a domed roof, often covering a rotunda, is from the Latin for "little cask"

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