Meaning of "peripter" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF PERIPTER

peripter  [pəˈrɪptə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERIPTER

Peripter is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERIPTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Peripteros

Peripteros is the special name given to a type of ancient Greek or Roman temple surrounded by a portico with columns. It refers to the useful element for the architectural definition of buildings surrounded around their outside by a colonnade on all four sides of the cella, creating a four-sided arcade. By extension, it also means simply the perimeter of a building, when that perimeter is made up of columns. The term is frequently used of buildings in the Doric order.

Definition of peripter in the English dictionary

The definition of peripter in the dictionary is in classical architecture, a building, especially a temple, with a single row of columns surrounding it on all sides.

TRANSLATION OF PERIPTER

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIPTER»

Discover the use of peripter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peripter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Egyptian Temple Architecture: 100 Years of Hungarian ...

64 It was this broad-based research that resulted in the sanctuary reconstruction that he produced, which was a Doric peripter with an Egyptian entablature.'65 _ * *TM Istvanfi was also able to prove that the peripter and the temenos were ...

Győző Vörös, 2007

Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania ...

Zante bitumen. [bl-1].,- P. 203. Eichwald. (1834), Paraflin. Peripter des Oaspischen Meeres, p. 360. Reichenbach, Dr. R. v. (1834), Ueber das Petroleum ode-r die Steinole. Sohweigger Seidel's Jahrbuch, ix, 133; N. E. P. J., xvi, 376. A. J. Ph. (3) ...

Pennsylvania. State Geologist (1874-1890), 1887

Annual report of the Geological survey of Pennsylvania for ...

Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. *D'Aoust Virlet. ( 1834), Nouvelle note relative a l'origine des bitumes. B. S. G. F. (1). iv, 372. Zante bitumen. Ibid., P. 203. Eichwald. (1834), Paraffin. Peripter des Caspischen Meeres, ...

Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, J. Peter Lesley, Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1887

Versuch Einer Uebersicht Sämmtlicher Bekannter Bauwerke Der ...

Chr. durch Scopas aus Paros erbaut, ein berühmtes und schönes alt- griechisches Gebäude, oowst^Io» peripter<,8 und b^nlltrn», außerhalb jonischer, innerhalb in dorischer und korinthischer Ordnung übereinander, mit vielen Skulpturen, ...

W. Emmich, 1843

Annual Report on the Geological Survey of the State of ...

*D'Aoust Virlet. (1834), Nouvelle note relative a l'origine des bitumes. B. S. G. F. ( 1). iv, 372. Zante bitumen. Ibid., P. 203. Eichwald. (1834), Paraffin. Peripter des Caspischen Meeres, p. 360. Reichenbach, Dr. R. v. (1834), Ueber das Petroleum  ...

‎1887

The silva of North America: a description of the trees which ...

Fruit a compressed samara, peripter- ous. Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, deciduous or sub-persistent, furnished with stipules. Ulmus, Linnaas, Gen. 68 (1737). — Adanson, Fam. Pl. Mioroptelea, Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, xv. 358 (1841). — ii.

Charles Sprague Sargent, 1895

Annual Report on the Geological Survey of the State of ...

Zante bitumen. Ibid., P. 203. Eichwald. (1834), Paraffin. Peripter des Caspischen Meeres, p. 360. Reichenbach, Dr. R. v. (1834), Ueber das Petroleum oder die Steinole. Schweigger Seidel's Jahrbuch, ix, 133; N. E. P. J., xvi, 376. A. J. Ph. (3), ii, ...

Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1887

English spellings and spelling rules. [With] The dictionary ...

... perihelion. perihelium. perioeci. pericecians. periphrasis. periphrase. peripneumonia. peripneumony. periptery. peripter. penscians. periscii. peristyle. perhtylium. peritonaeum. peritoneum. Persian. Persic. pertuse. pertused. peruke. periwig.

James Stormonth, 1876

The Botanical Gazette

This, as just stated, is placed in the “Peripter:e” division, next to F.platycar-pa, where it does not at all belong. F. riridis, Michx. i. is referred as synonym to F. Americana, on the strength of Michaux's citation of F. juglandifolth, Lam., and on his ...

‎1881

Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania

Zunte bitumen. Ibid., P. 203. Eichwald. (1834), Paraffin. Peripter des Caspischen Meeres, p. 360. Reichenbach, Dr. R. v. (1834), Ueber das Petroleum oder die Steinole. Schweigger Seidel's Jahrbuch, ix, 133; N. E. P. J., xvi. 376. A. J. Ph. (3), ii, ...

Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1887