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περίστυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίστυλος περίστυλον

Structure: περιστυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with pillars round the wall, surrounded with a colonnade
  2. a peristyle, colonnade round a temple or court-yard

Examples

  • τοσαῦται γάρ εἰσιν αὐλαὶ περίστυλοι συνεχεῖσ ἀλλήλαισ ἐφ’ ἕνα στίχον πᾶσαι καὶ ἐφ’ ἑνὸσ τοίχου ὡσ ἂν τείχουσ μακροῦ προκειμένασ ἔχοντοσ τὰσ αὐλάσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 73:5)

Synonyms

  1. with pillars round the wall

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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