stylobate
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stylobata, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στυλοβάτης (stulobátēs), from στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go, to walk”).
Pronunciation
Noun
stylobate (plural stylobates)
- (Classical Greek architecture) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
- 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 121:
- The bases of the columns and the plinths below them appear to be standing on pedestals, but this is only an illusion, for the stylobate [translating Sockel] has been cut through in five places, and through each gap five steps lead up between the columns.
Translations
top step of the crepidoma
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See also
French
Noun
stylobate m (plural stylobates)
Further reading
- “stylobate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.