portico

noun

1. A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.

   “The amphitheatre hath two portici as that at Niſmes.”

   “The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.”

   “The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.”

   “[…] Porticus Milliaria (portico of the thousand paces) which was the longest, if not the most attractive, of the many portici of ancient Rome.”

name

1. The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).