pseudodipteral

American  

[soo-doh-dip-ter-uhl] / ˌsu doʊˈdɪp tər əl /

adjective

Architecture.

1. having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.

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Etymology

Origin of pseudodipteral

1690–1700; < Greek pseudodípter ( os ) ( pseudo-, dipteral ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

These ideas are developed, as I have described, in the pseudodipteral arrangement of a temple.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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

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 pseudodipteral is so constructed that in front and in the rear there are in each case eight columns, with fifteen on each side, including the corner columns.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio