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trilith|ˈtraɪlɪθ|
Orig. (and still often) in Gr. form trilithon |ˈtraɪlɪθɒn|.
[ad. Gr. τρίλιθον, neut. of τρίλιθος adj., of three stones, f. τρι- tri- + λίθος stone; so mod.F. trilithe.]
A prehistoric structure or monument consisting of three large stones, two upright and one resting upon them as a lintel.
α1740W. Stukeley Stonehenge iv. 22 This adytum..is in truth compos'd of certain compages of stones, which I shall call trilithons, because made, each of two upright stones, with an impost at top. 1881T. Hardy What Shepherd Saw in Changed Man, etc. (1913) 190 A Druidical trilithon, consisting of three oblong stones in the form of a doorway. 1904Windle Rem. Prehist. Age Brit. 185 An ellipse of hewn sarsen trilithons, with mortise and tenon connections.
β1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. iii. 93 A trilith or complete cromlech, consisting only of three stones. 1852Wright Celt, Rom. & Saxon ii. 59 Stones..arranged in what the French archæologists term triliths. 1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 78 Circles of monoliths or triliths, sometimes surrounding what seems an altar.
b. (in form trilithon) repr. Gr. τρίλιθον applied to the Jupiter temple at Bálbec, in the wall of which there are three gigantic stones lying end to end.
1847J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §269. 262 Of the trilithon at Balbec there are to be seen stones as much as 60 feet in length. 1881Athenæum 6 Aug. 174/2 She [Mrs. G. Sumner] attributes the trilithon temple of Baalbek..to those mysterious Phœnician builders.
Hence trilithic |traɪˈlɪθɪk| a. (erron. triliˈthonic), pertaining to or of the nature of a trilith.
1834Gentl. Mag. Feb. 175 Having what may almost be called the unique trilithonic construction. 1872Latham Eng. Dict., Trilithic. |