单词 | pteroma |
释义 | pteroman. 1. Classical Architecture. The walkway between the cella of a Greek or Roman temple and the surrounding colonnade. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > ambulatory > [noun] ambulatory1483 pteroma1770 pace-aisle1877 1770 tr. J.-B. Chappe d'Auteroche Journey into Siberia 16 On coming into the court-yard, which is very large, two pteromata [Fr. deux aîles de bâtiments], built after the Roman manner, are seen on each side. 1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. iv. 72 The walks round the exterior of the body of the temples were called pteromata. 1837 Antiq. Athens 103 Pteroma, has frequently a more extended application, but in the present work it is used to distinguish the continuation of the side walls from the transverse partition of the cella to the antæ. 1883 Science Dec. 741/1 The drainage from this imperfect covering is effected by perforating the lateral walls of the cella with gutters, leading the rain-water into the pteroma. 1959 M. S. Briggs Everyman's Conc. Encycl. Archit. 259 Pteroma (from Gk pteron, a wing), in a Greek temple..the space between the walls of the temple itself and the surrounding colonnade. 1966 J. Fleming et al. Penguin Dict. Archit. 228/2 Pteroma, in a Greek temple, the space between the walls and colonnades. 1998 Hesperia 67 9 The limestone chips are recognizably Archaic, closely resembling those excavated from the west pteroma, where they were found in a deposit beneath the clay floors. ΚΠ 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1038/1 Pteroma, applied by Illiger to the internal tectrices of the wings, which are generally longer than the others: a pterome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1770 |
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