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; see peri-, -pterous) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

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peripteral

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 Noah Webster

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

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

The temple seems to have been hexastyle peripteral, but all trace of the cella has disappeared.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson

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