entablature

English

Etymology

From Italian intavolatura, from in + tavola (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtæ.blə.t͡ʃɚ/

Noun

entablature (plural entablatures)

1. (architecture) All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:

     In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.

Synonyms

• entablement

Translations

part of a classical temple

• Greek: θριγκός (el) m (thrigkós)
• Indonesian: entablatur
• Swedish: entablemang (sv) n

See also

• trabeated

Anagrams

• nature table, untreatable