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adyton

adyton noun: synonym of adytum.

Noun

adyton (plural adyta or adytons)

  1. Synonym of adytum.
    • The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton. The adyton floor was covered with a pavement in later centuries, but in the third century B.C. a grove of bay trees, it appears, grew in the adyton (and this is probably true of...1988, Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions, University of California Press, page 40
    • 1998 [Routledge], Rodney Castleden, Atlantis Destroyed, 2001, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Paperback, page 101,
      Here too is the only adyton so far discovered at Akrotiri. There are four in the temple at Knossos, and because the Akrotiri adyton is embellished with frescoes illuminating its use it...
    Synonyms:
    adytum

Examples of adyton in a sentence

  • The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton.1988, Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions, University of California Press, page 40:
  • Others with similar elaborate adytons are at Qasr Neba and Sfira in Lebanon.2002, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 337:

Synonyms of adyton

Forms of adyton

pluraladyta
pluraladytons

Origin of adyton

From Ancient Greek ἄδυτον (áduton); compare adytum.

Questions about adyton

What does adyton mean?
Adyton means synonym of adytum.
How do you use adyton in a sentence?
The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton.
What part of speech is adyton?
Adyton is a noun.
What is the plural of adyton?
The plural of adyton is adyta.

Words near adyton in the dictionary

  1. adyponectin
  2. adysplasia
  3. adyt
  4. adyta
  5. adytal
  6. adyton
  7. adytons
  8. adyts
  9. adytum
  10. adytums
  11. adytus

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