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stylobata

stylobata is the alternative form of stylobate.

Meaning of stylobate

Noun

stylobate (plural stylobates)

  1. (Classical, Greek) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
    • 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.1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 121

Questions about stylobata

What is stylobata the alternative form of?
Stylobata is the alternative form of stylobate.

Words near stylobata in the dictionary

  1. stylizing
  2. styll
  3. stylo
  4. stylo milo
  5. stylo-
  6. stylobata
  7. stylobate
  8. stylobates
  9. stylocavernula
  10. stylocellid
  11. stylocellids

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