pycnostyle

[ pik-nuh-stahyl ]

adjective

, Architecture.

1. having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pycnostyle¹

1555–65; < Latin pycnostȳlus < Greek pyknóstȳlos, equivalent to pyknós pycno- + -stylos -style ²

Example Sentences

The five sorts are Pycnostyle, Systile, 80.

From Project Gutenberg

This Table contains the five sorts of Edifices: AA is the Pycnostyle; that is to say, where the Pillars are very close, the Intercolumniation being but of one Diameter, and a half of the Column: BB is the Systyle, viz. where the Pillars have two Diameters of Intercolumniation: CC is the Diastyle, viz. where the Pillars are at that distance, that they have for the Intercolumniation three Diameters: DD is the Areostyle, where the Pillars are far asunder.

From Project Gutenberg

Pycnostyle temples, 78 f.; proportions of columns in, 84.

From Project Gutenberg

The columns are then to be distributed over the stylobates in the manner above described: close together in the pycnostyle; in the systyle, diastyle, or eustyle, as they are described and arranged above.

From Project Gutenberg

The pycnostyle is a temple in an intercolumniation of which the thickness of a column and a half can be inserted: for example, the temple of the Divine Caesar, that of Venus in Caesar's forum, and others constructed like them.

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