amphiprostylos

From Ancient Greek ἀμφι- (amphi-, “on both sides”) + πρόστῡλον (próstūlon, “portico”), neuter substantivization of πρόστῡλος (próstūlos, “with pillars in front”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [am.pʰɪ.prɔsˈtyː.ɫɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [am.fi.prosˈt̪iː.los]

amphiprostȳlos m (genitive amphiprostȳlī); second declension

1. (architecture) a temple with pillars at each end, but not at the side

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

• c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 3.2.1–4:

  Aedium autem principia sunt, e quibus constat figurarum aspectus; et primum in antis, quod graece naos en parastasin dicitur, deinde prostylos, amphiprostylos, peripteros, pseudodipteros, hypaethros. Horum exprimuntur formationes his rationibus. In antis erit aedes, cum habebit in fronte antas parietum qui cellam circumcludunt, et inter antas in medio columnas duas supraque fastigium symmetria ea conlocatum, quae in hoc libro fuerit perscripta. Huius autem exemplar erit ad tres Fortunas ex tribus quod est proxime portam Collinam. Prostylos omnia habet quemadmodum in antis, columnas autem contra antas angulares duas supraque epistylia, quemadmodum et in antis, et dextra ac sinistra in versuris singula. Huius exemplar est in insula Tiberina in aede Iovis et Fauni. Amphiprostylos omnia habet ea. quae prostylos, praetereaque habet in postico ad eundem modum columnas et fastigium.

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• “amphiprostylos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amphiprostylos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “amphiprostylos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “amphiprostylos”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin