tetrastyle

American  

[te-truh-stahyl] / ˈtɛ trəˌstaɪl /

adjective

Architecture.

1. having four columns.

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Etymology

Origin of tetrastyle

1695–1705; < Latin tetrastȳlon < Greek tetrástȳlon, noun use of neuter of tetrástȳlos having four pillars; see tetra-, -style ²

Example Sentences

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tetrastyle

The main approach on the north side is through a tunnel, above which, on a projecting rock, stands the cemetery chapel, built in the form of a small Doric temple with tetrastyle porticos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

From this decastyle colonnade projected a tetrastyle portico, which introduced the people ascending from a flight of steps to a gigantic portal.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two.

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