different between finial vs inial
finial
English
Etymology
Late Middle English finial < Old French fin or Latin f?nis (“end”) +? -ial
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f?n.i.?l/
Noun
finial (plural finials)
- The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture.
- Coordinate term: fleuron
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 24, [1]
- Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,
- The steep slate roofs were topped with bronze finials so tall and fanciful they looked like drops of liquid sliding down a thread.
- Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fence post or staircase newel post.
Quotations
- 1988 : It was a narrow, gravelled island we had to lie on, guarded by glazed brick chimneys and, running along the sides, a prickly little gothic fence of iron finials and terracotta quatrefoils. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 142)
Translations
Further reading
- finial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- failin'
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inial
English
Etymology
inion +? -al
Adjective
inial (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Relating to the inion.
- 1855, The transactions of the Linnean Society of London
- While the vaulted crania, as has been already noticed, sink iniad, the crania of Bovines, which are flattened over the palate, rise to an inial elevation of one half the basilar length.
- 1855, The transactions of the Linnean Society of London
Anagrams
- Ilian, ailin'
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