voussoir

Senso (Inglese)

One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.

sinonimi

springer

arch stone

wedge-shaped stone

wedge block

Traduzioni

voussoir

aduela

dovella

θολίτης

Voussoir

clavèu

Aduela

dovela

kemer taşı

Gewölbstein

σφηνόλιθος

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/vuˈswɑːr/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Unadapted borrowing from French voussoir, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“I roll”).