stylobate

American  

[stahy-luh-beyt] / ˈstaɪ ləˌbeɪt /

noun

Architecture.

1. a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.

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stylobate British  

/ ˈstaɪləˌbeɪt /

noun

1. a continuous horizontal course of masonry that supports a colonnade

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Etymology

Origin of stylobate

1555–65; < Latin stȳlobatēs, stȳlobata < Greek stȳlobátēs, equivalent to stȳlo- stylo- ² + -batēs ( ba- (base of baínein to step) + -tēs agent suffix)

Example Sentences

Steps or offsets between the stylobate and the columns.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The Roman Corinthian, like the Greek orders, consisted of three parts, stylobate, column, and entablature, but the stylobate was much loftier, and was not graduated, except in the access before a portico.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

They are clad after the manner of their time, and lying at length on a stylobate, strewn with flower-de-luces.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

Had the architect wished equality of height for the eastern and western colonnades he would have been compelled to place the stylobate of the western two courses lower.

From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)

The stylobate had therefore to be similarly curved so that the columns should be all of the same height.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various