decastyle

American  

[dek-uh-stahyl] / ˈdɛk əˌstaɪl /

Sometimes decastylar

adjective

Architecture.

1. having ten columns.

2. (of a classical temple) having ten columns on one front or on each front.

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decastyle British  

/ ˈdɛkəˌstaɪl /

noun

1. architect a portico consisting of ten columns

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Etymology

Origin of decastyle

1720–30; < Latin decastȳlos < Greek dekástȳlos, equivalent to déka deca- + -stȳlos -style ²

Example Sentences

From this decastyle colonnade projected a tetrastyle portico, which introduced the people ascending from a flight of steps to a gigantic portal.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

The temple was a decastyle peripteral structure of the Ionic order, standing on seven steps and possessing double rows of outer columns 60 ft. high, twenty-one in each row on the flanks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

In other words Agrippa’s portico was decastyle; the actual portico is octastyle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various