The corpus record — Latin

metopa

metopa · f

the space between two hollows

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Where it lives

De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k

What it meant

mĕtŏpa — Lewis & Short

mĕtŏpa, ae, f., = meto/ph,

I the space between two hollows; in architecture, the space between two dentils or two triglyphs, a metope (only in Vitr.): inter denticulos et inter triglyphos quae sunt intervalla, metopae nominantur, etc., Vitr. 4, 2, 4.

In the wild

metopasque Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.2
metopas Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.6
metopis Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.4
metopae Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.2.4
metopae Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.8
metopas Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.2

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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