Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Opisthodome

Opisthodome , noun

[Latin opisthodomus, Greek {not transcribed}; 'o`pisqen behind + do`mos house: compare French opisthodome.]

(Architecture) A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.