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dipteral

[ dip-ter-uhl ]

adjective

Entomology, Botany.


dipteral

/ ˈɪəə /

adjective

  1. architect having a double row of columns
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Origin of dipteral1

1805–15; < Latin dipter ( us ) (< Greek íٱDz; Diptera ) + -al 1
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The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.

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First there is the temple in antis, or ναος ἑν παραστἁσιν as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.

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He did so by dispensing with the inner rows of thirty-eight columns which belonged to the symmetry of the dipteral temple, and in this way he made a saving in expense and labour.

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The dipteral also is octastyle in both front and rear porticoes, but it has two rows of columns all round the temple, like the temple of Quirinus, which is Doric, and the temple of Diana at Ephesus, planned by Chersiphron, which is Ionic.

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In everything else it is the same as the dipteral, but inside it has two tiers of columns set out from the wall all round, like the colonnade of a peristyle.

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