octastyle
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective In architecture, having, or characterized by the presence of, eight columns, as a portico or a building having eight columns in front.
- noun A building having eight columns in front; especially, a Greek or Roman temple having that number of columns in the front row of the portico.
Examples
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A third method of designating or distinguishing the temples is by the number of columns in front, thus temples are called tetrastyle, hexastyle, octastyle, that is having five, six, or eight columns.
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If an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.
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It was an octastyle peripteral temple, with seventeen columns on the side, and measured 220 by 100 feet on the top of the stylobate.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
Note
The word 'octastyle' comes from the Latin 'octastȳlus', from Greek 'oktastūlos' : okta- (octa-) + stūlos, (pillar).