English Explanatory Dictionary

scamillus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without mouldings and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.

Word forms

scamillus scamilli

Etymology

From Latin [Term?] (“a little bench”), from scamnum (“bench, stool”).

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