valvae
valvae, ārum, f. (volvo), die Türflügel, die zusammen- od. übereinandergelegt werden konnten, die Doppeltür, Klapptür, valvae aedis, Nep.: valvae curiae, Val. Max.: valvae templi limenque, Caes.: convulsis repagulis effractisque valvis (fani) demoliri signum, Cic. – ➳ Sing. valva, ae, f., Pompon. com. 91. Petron. 96, 1. Sen. Herc. fur. 999 (1004). Ps. Ven. Fort. in laud. Mar. 295. p. 378 Leo.
valvæ, (11) ārum, f. , battants dʼune porte, porte à double battant : Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 94 ; Div. 1, 74.
➳ sing. valva Pompon. Com. 91 ; Petr. 96, 1.
valvae ārum, f
- 3 VOL-, a pair of doorleaves: effractis valvis, the folding-door: bullas aureas ex valvis auferre: Valvarum strepitus, H.: templi, Cs., O., N.
Valvae
(θύραι διάπριστοι). A folding door or shutter, i. e. one made of two or more leaves which fold back one behind the other. The house-doors were sometimes of this sort, as the marks on a threshold in Pompeii show (Pliny, Epist. ii. 17, 5; Isid. Orig. xv. 7, 4).