pediment

English

The upper part of the Madeleine Church in Paris, showing the pediment with its neoclassical sculptures

From the earlier form peremint, perhaps a dialectal alteration of pyramid, under the influence of -ment.

pediment (plural pediments)

(architecture) A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
- 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
  Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]
(geology) A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.

architectural element

Bulgarian: фронтон m (fronton)
Catalan: frontó (ca) m
Dutch: fronton (nl)
Finnish: päätykolmio (fi), frontoni (fi)
French: fronton (fr) m
German: Giebeldreieck n, Giebelfeld n, Frontispiz (de) n, Bekrönung f, Fronton n, Frontspieß m, Ziergiebel (de) m, Giebel (de) m, Pedimentfläche f
Greek: αέτωμα (el) n (aétoma)
Ancient: ἀέτωμα n (aétōma)
Icelandic: bjór (is) m, gaflbrík f, gaflhlað n
Ido: frontono (io)
Italian: frontone (it) m
Latin: fastīgium n
Ottoman Turkish: آلنلق (alınlık)
Polish: fronton (pl) m, przyczółek (pl) m
Portuguese: frontão (pt) m
Russian: фронто́н (ru) m (frontón)
Spanish: frontón (es) m
Swedish: fronton (sv)
Turkish: alınlık (tr)

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