caryatids

Meaning of caryatids

plural noun

a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.

mid 16th century: via French and Italian from Latin caryatides, from Greek karuatides, plural of karuatis ‘priestess of Artemis at Caryae’, from Karuai (Caryae) in Laconia.

Information about caryatids

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of caryatids is: caryatid.
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Hyphenation of caryatids

cary-atids

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • caryatids is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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