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A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
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a supporting column carved in the shape of a person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: column, pillar
From Middle French cariatide, from Latin caryatides, from Ancient Greek Καρυάτιδες (Karuátides), plural of Καρυᾶτις (Karuâtis, “a priestess of Artemis, female figures used as bearing-shafts”), from καρυατίζω (karuatízō, “dance the Karyatid festival dance”) from Καρύαι (Karúai, “a town in Laconia with a temple of Artemis and a festival”).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
կարիատիդ
(kariatid)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Asturian:
cariátide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Belarusian:
карыяты́да
(karyjatýda)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Bulgarian:
кариатида
(kariatida)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Catalan:
cariàtide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Czech:
karyatida
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Danish:
karyatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Dutch:
kariatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Finnish:
karyatidi
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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French:
cariatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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French:
caryatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Galician:
cariátide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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German:
Karyatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Greek:
Καρυάτις
(Karyátis)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Greek:
καρυάτιδα
(karyátida)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Ancient Greek:
Καρυᾶτις
(Karuâtis)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Hungarian:
kariatida
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Irish:
cairiaitid
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Italian:
cariatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Latvian:
kariatīde
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Norwegian Bokmål:
karyatide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Polish:
kariatyda
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Portuguese:
cariátide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Russian:
кариати́да
(kariatída)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Spanish:
cariátide
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Swedish:
karyatid
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
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Ukrainian:
каріати́да
(kariatýda)
— a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element
