2 entries under this word

Araeostyle

A-rae'o-stȳle, n.

noun

n. [Lat. araeostylos, Gr. ἀραιόστυλος, from ἀραιός, thin, rare, with intervals, and στῦλος, a pillar, a column.] (Arch.) That style of the Grecian temple in which the columns are placed four, and occasionally five, diameters apart.

A-ræ'o-stȳle, a.

adjective

a. Pertaining to a kind of intercolumniation in which the columns are four or five diameters apart. Vitruv.