amphiprostyle

American  

[am-fip-ruh-stahyl, am-fuh-proh-stahyl] / æmˈfɪp rəˌstaɪl, ˌæm fəˈproʊ staɪl /

adjective

1. prostyle on both fronts.

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amphiprostyle British  

/ ˌæmfɪˈprəʊstaɪl, æmˈfɪprəˌstaɪl /

adjective

1. (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends but not at the sides

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noun

1. a temple of this kind

Other Word Forms

• amphiprostylar adjective

Etymology

Origin of amphiprostyle

1700–10; < Latin amphiprostȳlus < Greek amphipróstȳlos. See amphi-, prostyle

Example Sentences

Did a vestibule exist at the front only, the temple would be called prostyle; as it is, it is amphiprostyle.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

The form of the building is that known as amphiprostyle peripteral hexastyle.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

Without lateral columns; Ð applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

First there is the temple in antis, or ναος ἑν παραστἁσιν as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio