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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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

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

These approaches are guarded by two churches, S. Maria di Monte Santo and S. Maria dei Miracoli, similar in appearance, with oval domes and tetrastyle porticoes that look like ecclesiastical porters' lodges.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

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

The centre is a tetrastyle portico of the Ionic order, raised on a terrace.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various