dipteral

American  

[dip-ter-uhl] / ˈdɪp tər əl /

adjective

Entomology, Botany.

1. dipterous.

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dipteral British  

/ ˈdɪptərəl /

adjective

1. architect having a double row of columns

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Etymology

Origin of dipteral

1805–15; < Latin dipter ( us ) (< Greek dípteros; see Diptera) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

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

In everything else it is the same as the dipteral, but inside it has two tiers of columns set out from the wall all round, like the colonnade of a peristyle.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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

He did so by dispensing with the inner rows of thirty-eight columns which belonged to the symmetry of the dipteral temple, and in this way he made a saving in expense and labour.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio