Peripteral Definition

pə-rĭptər-əl
adjective
Having a single row of columns on all sides.
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Origin of Peripteral

  • From Latin peripteros from Greek peri- peri- pteron wing pet- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Peripteral Sentence Examples

  • The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 452 ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.

  • It was a peripteral hexastyle, and must have had at least nineteen columns at the sides; the portion excavated shows that its total width is 744 ft., the width of the cella 382 ft., the lower diameter of the columns 64 ft.

  • The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle.

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