cymatium
Americannoun
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the uppermost member of a classical cornice or of a cornice of similar form: usually a cyma recta in classical examples.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cymatium
1555–65; < Latin < Greek kȳmátion, equivalent to kȳmat- (stem of kŷma wave; see cyma) + -ion diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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Its cymatium is one seventh of the whole height of the frieze, and the projection of the cymatium is the same as its height.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Four Ionic columns—fluted for half their height and their shafts purple-robed with minium tints—sustained a cymatium adorned with polychromatic ornaments that the artist seemed only to have completed the day before.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile
Sometimes the cymatium was not carried along the flanks of a temple, in which case the rain fell off the lower edge of the roof tiles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The width of the faces of the jambs should be one fourteenth of the height of the aperture, and the cymatium one sixth of the width.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The cymatium here is one sixth of the whole height of this part.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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