different between peristyle vs arcade

English

Etymology

From French péristyle, from Classical Latin perist?lum, perist?lium, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (perist??lion), ?????????? (perístulon), noun use of the neuter form of ?????????? (perístulos, “surrounded by columns”), from ???? (perí) + ?????? (stûlos, “pillar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???sta?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p???sta?l/

Noun

peristyle (plural peristyles)

1. A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns. [from 17th c.]
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 143:

     One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.

2. A porch surrounded by columns. [from 17th c.]
3. (voodoo) A sacred roofed courtyard with a central pillar (the potomitan), used as a space for voodoo ceremonies, either alone or as an adjunct to an enclosed temple or altar-room.
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, p. 47:

     The peristyle is a roofed structure, open at the sides, in which most of the ceremonials and dances take place.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books 2007, p. 35:

     Most peristyles in Haiti have hard-packed dirt floors that can soak up libations when they're poured on the ground in honor of the spirits.

Translations

Anagrams

• Priestley

English

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• Hyphenation: ar?cade
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. (video games) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Afrikaans: arcade
• ? Czech: arkádové

Translations

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,^[1]

     its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +? -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.kad/

Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

Further reading

• “arcade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).