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Peristyle vs Hypostyle - What's the difference?

peristyle | hypostyle |

As a noun peristyle

is colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.

As an adjective hypostyle is

having a roof supported on a row of columns.

peristyle

English

(wikipedia peristyle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 143:
    • One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.
  • A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade.
  • A porch surrounded by columns.

    • hypostyle

    English

    (wikipedia hypostyle)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (architecture) Having a roof supported on a row of columns

    • Usage notes

    * Sometimes used (mistakenly) as a noun.