peripteral

American  

[puh-rip-ter-uhl] / pəˈrɪp tər əl /

adjective

1. (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.

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peripteral British  

/ pəˈrɪptərəl /

adjective

1. having a row of columns on all sides

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Etymology

Origin of peripteral

1820–30; < Latin peripter ( on ) (< Greek, noun use of neuter of perípteros encompassed round with columns, literally, flying around; peri-, -pterous ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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

The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 45� ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

It was a peripteral octostyle, of the Doric order, with seventeen columns on the sides, each six feet two inches in diameter at the base, and thirty-four feet in height, elevated on three steps.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

The Ionic order was much used in the Greek cities of Asia Minor for peripteral temples.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow