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The word ''grotto'' comes from [[Italian language|Italian]] ''grotta'', [[Vulgar Latin]] ''grupta'', and [[Latin]] ''crypta'' ("a [[crypt]]").<ref>''[[OED]]'', ''s.v.'' "grotto".</ref> It is also related by a historical accident to the word ''grotesque''. In the late 15th century, Romans accidentally unearthed [[Nero]]'s ''[[Domus Aurea]]'' on the [[Palatine Hill]], a series of rooms, decorated with designs of garlands, slender architectural framework, foliage, and animals. The rooms had sunk underground over time. The Romans who discovered this historical monument found it very strange, partly because it was uncovered from an "underworld" source. This led the Romans of that era to give it the name ''grottesca'', from which came the French ''[[grotesque]]''. |
The word ''grotto'' comes from [[Italian language|Italian]] ''grotta'', [[Vulgar Latin]] ''grupta'', and [[Latin]] ''crypta'' ("a [[crypt]]").<ref>''[[OED]]'', ''s.v.'' "grotto".</ref> It is also related by a historical accident to the word ''grotesque''. In the late 15th century, Romans accidentally unearthed [[Nero]]'s ''[[Domus Aurea]]'' on the [[Palatine Hill]], a series of rooms, decorated with designs of garlands, slender architectural framework, foliage, and animals. The rooms had sunk underground over time. The Romans who discovered this historical monument found it very strange, partly because it was uncovered from an "underworld" source. This led the Romans of that era to give it the name ''grottesca'', from which came the French ''[[grotesque]]''. |
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