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Atrium vs Peristyle - What's the difference?

atrium | peristyle |

As nouns the difference between atrium and peristyle

is that atrium is a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings while peristyle is colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.

atrium

English

(wikipedia atrium)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
  • (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
  • (anatomy) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
  • * {{quote-book, 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County citation
    • , passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}

    Synonyms

    * (room in Roman homes) cavaedium

    Derived terms

    * atrial * atriate English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    peristyle

    English

    (wikipedia peristyle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 143:
    • One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.
  • A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade.
  • A porch surrounded by columns.