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单词 pycnostyle
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pycnostylen.adj.

Brit. /ˈpɪknəʊstʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈpɪknoʊˌstaɪl/
Forms: 1700s pychnostyle (irregular), 1700s– pycnostyle.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pycnostyle; Latin pycnostȳlos.
Etymology: < French pycnostyle building having a distance between adjacent columns equal to one and a half times the diameter of a column (1673 (in a translation of Vitruvius) or earlier) or its etymon classical Latin pycnostȳlos (of a building) having a distance between adjacent columns equal to one and a half times the diameter of a column (Vitruvius) < ancient Greek πυκνο- pycno- comb. form + στῦλος column (see styloid adj.).For earlier unassimilated borrowing of classical Latin pycnostȳlos (in quot. 1663 apparently showing a transmission error for pycnostylos) compare:1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Fiv Picnostylos whose..pillers standeth distant from echeother a Diameter, & a halfe or .2. at ye furdest.1663 tr. Vitruvius in W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 26 The Pycnostyles [L. Pycnostylos] is that, where the Intercolumnium, or Intervall, is equal to the thickness, and half the thickness of the Column it self.
Architecture.
A. n.
A building, esp. one of classical or neoclassical design, having a row of columns placed close together, typically so that the distance between adjacent columns is equal to one and a half times the diameter of a column. Also: this style or arrangement.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > columned structure > structure with specific arrangement of columns
diastyle1563
portico1607
porticus1617
peripterosa1652
systyle1664
pseudoperipter1692
monopter1696
peripter1696
pycnostylea1706
amphiprostyle1706
araeostyle1706
dipteros1706
monopteros1706
pseudoperipteros1706
periptery1708
tambour1823
monopteral1845
a1706 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. (1707) 30 The rest [of the columns]..placed as the Pycnostyle closer to one another.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pycnostyle, or Pychnostyle,..a Building where the Columns stand very close to one another.
1740 W. Stukeley Stonehenge iii. 16 To talk of pycnostyle with Mr. Webb, and call these stones of ours pillars or pillasters..is monstrous.
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 319 The wide intercolumniations of the later Grecian edifices probably came nearer to the primitive model than the old Doric pycnostyle.
1959 D. S. Robertson Handbk. Greek & Rom. Archit. (ed. 2) x. 154 The height of the columns in eustyle is the same as that in systyle, namely nine and a half lower diameters, pycnostyle having ten, diastyle, eight and a half.
2002 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 61 285/2 The intercolumniations..are a hybrid of the pycnostyle (one and a half diameters) and the systyle.
B. adj.
Having or designating such an arrangement of columns.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > unit of proportion based on column diameter > specific spacing of columns
systyle1563
eustyle1696
pycnostyle1738
monotriglyph1797
araeosystyle1834
ditriglyphic1837
monotriglyphic1837
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Hypæthros Of hypæthrons, some were decastyle, others pycnostyle.
?1787 Artist's Repository & Drawing Mag. 2 181 Pycnostyle intercolumniations are distant from column to column one diameter and a half of the column measured at bottom.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 315/2 Within the court the colonnades were pycnostyle.
1896 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Art 11 128 The pteron was surrounded by 36 columns of rather low proportion, and arranged in pycnostyle order, to provide for the exceptional weight of the pyramidal roof.
1926 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 30 267 The prominent Ionic temples in Asia Minor cluster thickly between pycnostyle and systyle and are neither clearly the one nor the other.
1979 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 69 216 As for the pycnostyle Augustan exteriors, the larger a temple, the closer, relatively, the spacing of its columns.
1999 J. S. Curl Dict. Archit. 334/2 Vitruvius described its [sc. intercolumniation's] commonest varieties: 1½d: pycnostyle..2d: systyle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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