octastyle

American  

[ok-tuh-stahyl] / ˈɒk təˌstaɪl /

adjective

Architecture.

1. having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.

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Example Sentences

There is no example of this sort in Rome, but in Athens there is the octastyle in the precinct of the Olympian.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Then, whether the temple is to be tetrastyle, hexastyle, or octastyle, let one of these parts be taken, and it will be the module.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

If an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.

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

These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio