Dictionary

entablature en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɛnˈtæ.blə.t͡ʃɚ/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
   • Such a distinctive and pleasing feature did this become that it was widely adapted to brick construction, the outward projection of pilasters and engaged columns, often both, supporting pediments and entablatures which had the effect of increasing the depth of brick walls. 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
   • 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. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:

Forms

Deriveds

entablatured

Relateds

trabeated

Synonyms

entablement

Translations (15)

sv entablemang (part of a classical temple) · pl entablatura (part of a classical temple) · cmn 柱頂 /柱顶 (part of a classical temple) · sh trabeacija (part of a classical temple) · de Gebälk (part of a classical temple) · de Hauptgesims (part of a classical temple) · sl entablatura (part of a classical temple) · fi entablementti (part of a classical temple) · id entablatur (part of a classical temple) · hu párkány (part of a classical temple) · cs kladí (part of a classical temple) · ja エンタブラチュア (part of a classical temple) · el θριγκός (part of a classical temple) · fr entablement (part of a classical temple) · ro antablament (part of a classical temple)