pseudodipteral

[ soo-doh-dip-ter-uhl ]

adjective

, Architecture.

1. having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pseudodipteral¹

1690–1700; < Greek pseudodípter ( os ) ( pseudo-, dipteral ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Pseudodipteral temple, 75, 78, 82.

From Project Gutenberg

First there is the temple in antis, or ναος ἑν παραστἁσιν as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.

From Project Gutenberg

The pseudodipteral is so constructed that in front and in the rear there are in each case eight columns, with fifteen on each side, including the corner columns.

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These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

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These ideas are developed, as I have described, in the pseudodipteral arrangement of a temple.

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