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单词 triglyph
释义 triglyph Arch.|ˈtraɪglɪf|
Also erron. 7–9 tryglyph, 7 triglife, -iphe, 8–9 trigliph. Formerly in L. form triglyphus, pl. -i.
[ad. L. triglyphus (Vitr.), a. Gr. τρίγλυϕ-ος thrice-grooved, f. τρι- tri- + γλυϕή carving. So F. triglyphe (1545 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A member or ornament in the Doric order, consisting of a block or tablet with three vertical grooves or glyphs (strictly, two whole grooves, and a half-groove on each side), repeated at regular intervals along the frieze, usually one over each column, and one or two (see ditriglyph 2) between every two columns.
1563Shute Archit. C iij b, The Canalicoli, standing vpright within the Triglyphi... Bitwixte the .2. Triglyphos, you shall set Methopa.1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 230 A sober garnishment..of Triglyphs and Metopes alwayes in the Frize.1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Triglyph..is a Member of the Frize of the Dorick Order.1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. xc. 528 A triglyph..was nine feet and a half high.1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 467 The architrave and trigliph, representing the beams and joists [of a primitive building].1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. i. vii. 76 The pillared shaft, the triglyph even rings, I think, indeed, the whole bright temple sings.
Hence ˈtriglyphal a. = triglyphic (a); triglyphed |-glɪft| a., furnished or adorned with triglyphs; in quot. 1880 as pa. pple., ? carved in the manner of a triglyph; triˈglyphic, triˈglyphical (rare—0) adjs., (a) pertaining to or of the nature of a triglyph; (b) ‘containing three sets of characters or sculptures’ (Webster, citing Gliddon).
1890Marquand in Amer. Jrnl. Archæol. VI. 54 The Egyptian scotia..is replaced in the Greek entablature by the *triglyphal frieze.
1837Penny Cycl. VII. 217/2 The plain capital composed of merely an echinus and abacus, and a *triglyphed frieze, enable us to pronounce at once that the order is the Doric.1849Freeman Archit. ii. ii. 110 Some Sicilian examples exhibit the triglyphed frieze.1880F. W. Percival in Academy 4 Sept. 173 The hair..represented in long parallel tresses distinctly triglyphed in the rock.
1847Webster, *Triglyphic, *Triglyphical.1866Ruskin Crown Wild Olive App. (1898) 219 They attack Brandenburg, under its Triglyphic protector.
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