intercolumniation

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ columniation.

Noun

intercolumniation (countable and uncountable, plural intercolumniations)

1. The spaces between adjacent columns (of a colonnade).
2. The system of such spacing.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, pages 39–40:

     [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings.

   • 1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary Architecture. The orders and their æsthetic principles:

     How intercolumniation is regulated in the Doric Order has been already explained at page 20: in that, the distances between the columns is governed entirely by the triglyphs of the frieze, so that there can be no medium between monotriglyphic and ditriglyphic intercolumniation, accordingly as there is either one or two triglyphs over each intercolumn.

See also

• areostyle
• diastyle
• eustyle
• pycnostyle
• systyle