Looking for a specific word

Factual Questions
1

I’m playing an online game with a chat window. There’s a brief real-world discussion. Somebody posts a word I’ve never heard of. :confused: I look it up - and it’s a real word. :cool:
Then stuff happens - and now I can’t remember the word. :frowning:
So over to you Dopers!
Your clues are:

  • this word defines an outdoor structure
  • the word has several syllables
  • it’s obviously from a classical language (probably Latin, maybe Greek)
  • we were discussing pergolas, gazebos etc.
  • its meaning is something like an area enclosed by columns
  • there’s a shorter version of the word (no prefix) which is a version of the structure

I’d really like to discover this word, as one of my mates likes quoting Latin and he’d enjoy hearing it…

2

a peristyle perhaps?

3

Good effort, that man. :slight_smile:

Sadly my word is longer (by a syllable or two) and more … Latin-like.

I have a vague memory of something like ‘ull’ being part of it…

4

I would have gone for tetrastoon, but that does not quite fit your description either.

5

Colonnade? Portico?

Not sure if they fit your clues.

6

nm.

7

Going at this from a completely different direction: Is it possible that your game saves the chat log?

8

If it’s a gazebo, don’t shoot an arrow at it.

9

Peripteros ?

Tetrastoon ?

Belvedere ?

10

Propylaeum?

11

From one of Peter Morris’s links, another possibility:

Peristasis?

12

Chalcidicum

13

I really appreciate these efforts (and I’m sorry I don’t have better clues.)
The word was several syllables and sounded very ‘classical’.

14

Just throwing words out:

balustrade
mezzanine
piazza
veranda
loggia
stoa

15

“Vestibule” meets your some of your requirements but the meaning isn’t correct.

16

Tetrapylon or in Latin quadrifrons? Or maybe a tetraporticus. There’s also the tetrakionion. The Persian form is a chahartaq.

17

Intercolumniation? Entablature? Displuviatum?

18

Palladium
I know it is a chemical element, but there is the Hollywood Palladium that could be the reason the word is associated with a structure.

19

Anteproscenium, with proscenium being the shorter version.

20

I swear that this thread was a Monty Python skit…