different between column vs amphiprostyle

English

Etymology

From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n, “top, summit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l?m/
• (General American), (Ireland) enPR: k?l??m, IPA^(key): /?k?l?m/
• (General American, rare), (Ireland) enPR: k?l?j?m, IPA^(key): /?k?lj?m/
• Hyphenation: col?umn
• Rhymes: -?l?m

Noun

column (plural columns)

1. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.

5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

6. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.

7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
8. (botany) The gynostemium
9. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

Synonyms

• (upright structure): post, pillar, sile

Antonyms

• (line of table entries): row (which is horizontal)

Hypernyms

• (upright structure): beam

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• column in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• column in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Latin amphiprostylos, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (amphipróstulos), from ???? (amphí) + ????????? (próstulos, “having pillars”).

Adjective

amphiprostyle (not comparable)

1. (architecture, chiefly historical, of a temple or edifice) Having columns at either end but not along the sides.
   • 1806, Thomas Gabb, Finis Pyramidis, page 19,

     This much being sufficiently proved; before I draw the inference in contemplation, I have next to prove, the original temple was amphiprostyle, and hexastyle.

   • 1854, Amphiprostylos, Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture, Volume 1, page 136,

     Another characteristic of amphiprostyle temples was that of their porticoes, consisting of four columns only.

Synonyms

• amphiprostylar

Related terms

• prostyle

Translations

Noun

amphiprostyle (plural amphiprostyles)

1. (architecture, historical) An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
   • 1819, Periptere, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page,

     Peripteres were properly temples which had columns on all the four ?ides; by which they were distinguished from pro?tyles, and amphipro?tyles, the one of which had no columns before, and the other none on the sides.

Translations

Further reading

• amphiprostyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of Ancient Greek temples on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

amphiprost?le

1. vocative singular of amphiprost?los