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

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Example Sentences

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tetrastyle

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

At the summit of the town is a beautiful little Doric tetrastyle temple, belonging probably to the 1st century B.C., built of limestone with an inscription recording its erection by the duumviri.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

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 John Addington Symonds

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

There are five different styles of cavaedium, termed according to their construction as follows: Tuscan, Corinthian, tetrastyle, displuviate, and testudinate.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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