stylobate

stylobate

English

Alternative forms

• stylobata

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stylobata, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στυλοβάτης (stulobátēs), from στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go, to walk”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstaɪ.lə.beɪt/

Noun

stylobate (plural stylobates)

1. (Classical Greek architecture) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
   • 1962, WH Auden & Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin 1970, p. 121:

     The bases of the columns and the plinths below them appear to be standing on pedestals, but this is only an illusion, for the stylobate [translating Sockel] has been cut through in five places, and through each gap five steps lead up between the columns.

Translations

top step of the crepidoma

Catalan: estilòbata (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 柱座 (zhùzuò) Finnish: stylobaatti (fi) French: stylobate (fr) m German: Stylobat (de) m Greek: στυλοβάτης (el) m (stylovátis) Hungarian: sztülobatész Italian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: estilóbata (pt) m Spanish: estilóbato (es) m

See also

• stylobate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

stylobate m (plural stylobates)

1. stylobate

Further reading

• “stylobate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.