xystus

From Ancient Greek ξυστός (xustós, “smooth; scraped”), from ξύω (xúō, “scrape”), referring to its polished floor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪstəs/

xystus (plural xysti)

1. (historical, architecture, in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.

   Synonyms: xyst, xystum

• Xystus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xystus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• xystum

From Ancient Greek ξυστός (xustós, “xystus”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈksys.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈksis.t̪us]

xystus m (genitive xystī); second declension

1. covered portico or gallery (or one planted with trees)

Second-declension noun.

• English: xystus
• Portuguese: xisto

• “xystus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “xystus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• xystus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “xystus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “xystus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “xystus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin