echinus

Meaning

1. A sea urchin.
2. The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
3. The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
4. The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.

Translations

riccio di mare

erizo de mar

denizkestanesi

deniz kirpisi

yastık

Etymology

From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).