Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pronaus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PRONA'US or -OS (πρόναος). A porch, or, as well call it, portico, in front of a temple (Vitruv. iii. 2. 8. Id. iv. 4. 1.); forming an open space surrounded with columns and surmounted by a pediment (fastigium) in advance of the main body (cella) of the building, under which the altar was placed and sacrifice performed. The illustration (Pronaus/1.1) represents an ancient temple, known as the Maison-carrée, at Nîmes.

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  Pronaus/1.1