peripteral

[ puh-rip-ter-uhl ]

adjective

1. (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.

peripteral

/ pəˈrɪptərəl /

adjective

1. having a row of columns on all sides

Word History and Origins

Origin of peripteral¹

1820–30; < Latin peripter ( on ) (< Greek, noun use of neuter of perípteros encompassed round with columns, literally, flying around; peri-, -pterous ) + -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of peripteral¹

C19: from peri- + -pteral, from Greek pteron wing

Example Sentences

Without lateral columns; Ð applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

From Project Gutenberg

The Parthenon was of the Doric order of architecture, and was of the form termed peripteral octastyle; that is to say, it was surrounded by a colonnade, which had eight columns at each end.

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They are all planned like a temple in antis,—the earliest form, from which the peripteral easily follows.

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The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 45� ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.

From Project Gutenberg

The temple was a decastyle peripteral structure of the Ionic order, standing on seven steps and possessing double rows of outer columns 60 ft. high, twenty-one in each row on the flanks.

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