pronaos
/pɹoʊˈneɪ.əs/noun
pronaos is a noun meaning “The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-O-N-A-O-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pronaos is pronaoi or pronaoses.
What does pronaos mean?
noun
- 1
The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pronaos?
- UK /pɹoʊˈneɪ.ɒs/
- US /pɹoʊˈneɪ.əs/
Pronaos has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pronaos
- pronaoi plural
- pronaoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pronaos?
Pronaos appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Pronaos in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pronaos come from?
From Ancient Greek πρόναος (prónaos, “vestibule of a church”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).