VAULT Copy link • VAULT 1. s. An arched roof, camera: concameratio: fornix (PROP., of single arches; then the whole vault). An arched place, concameratio: locus concameratus. A vault under ground, hypogeum (e.g., for the dead, Petronius, Sat., 11); locus sub terra saxo conseptus (Liv., 22, 57). A place for keeping things in, cella (a store-room): horreum (a warehouse for goods): taberna (a shop). 2. v. Transitively, camerare (Plin.): concamerare (all round): confornicare (Vitr., completely). To be vaulted, fornicatim curvari (Plin.); concamerari. Vaulted, cameratus; concameratus; fornicatus (vaulted): arcuatus (arched): convexus; gibbus (half round, convex; opposed to concavus, gibbus; Cels., 8, 1, in.). Intransitively, saltu se subjicere: saltu emicare. To vault on a horse, in equum insilire; saltu se subjicere in equum.