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单词 octastyle
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octastylen.adj.

Brit. /ˈɒktəstʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈɑktəˌstaɪl/
Forms: 1700s– octastyle, 1700s– octostyle.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin octastȳlus.
Etymology: < classical Latin octastȳlus having eight columns (Vitruvius) < ancient Greek ὀκτα- octa- comb. form + στῦλος pillar (see styloid adj.). Compare Middle French, French octastyle (1547 as adjective, 1836 as noun), octostyle (1580 as adjective, 1676 as noun), Italian octastilo, adjective (a1798; now also as ottastilo).The Greek form ὀκτάστυλος is apparently not recorded.
Architecture.
A. n.
A building, portico, etc., having eight columns. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > columned structure > structure with specific number of columns
hexastyle1704
tetrastyle1704
octastyle1706
pentastyle1728
distyle1840
dodecastyle1853
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Octastylos or Octastyle, a Building that has eight Pillars in Front.
1707 J. Evelyn Acct. Architects 30 Diptere has a double row of as many quite about, and Octostyle in Front also, at the Distance of Eustyle..; this made as it were a double Portico, which we call Isles.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Octostyle The 8 Columns of the Octostyle may either be disposed in a right Line..or in a Circle.
1852 Internat. Mag. Jan. 5/1 It [sc. the Parthenon] was a peripteral octostyle, of the Doric order.
1882 Princeton Rev. Jan.–June 79 The Octastyle, or eight-columned portico, of which the Parthenon is the most perfect example, comprises the double square, having twice the number of columns that are found in the tetrastyle.
1974 V. J. Bruno Parthenon 327 Octastyle, a Greek temple having eight columns across the front, rear, or both.
B. adj.
Of a building, etc.: having eight columns.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > having specific number of columns
decastyle1727
polystyle1736
hexastyle1748
octastyle1832
tetrastyle1837
triprostyle1841
heptastyle1843
polystylar1843
monostylar1844
monostyle1850
monostyle1850
enneastyle1875
pentastyle1882
tetraprostyle1891
tetrastylic1895
hexastylar-
1832 W. Wilkins in Philol. Museum 1 543 We should have an octostyle and a hexastyle temple as illustrations of the hypæthral decastyle species.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 142 The temple is Doric, octostyle, or with eight columns at each end.
1912 Times 6 Aug. 5/6 In this cutting lie the marble remains of the temple..an octastyle pseudo-dipteral building..with 20 columns on its flanks.
1950 W. B. Dinsmoor Archit. Anc. Greece (ed. 3) iii. 86 Somewhat later was erected at Cyrene a great limestone octastyle temple of Zeus.
1996 R. H. Darwall-Smith Emperors & Archit. iv. 138 [Coin] BMC 199..depicts an octostyle temple richly decorated with sculpture..and bearing the inscription Imp. Caesar on the architrave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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