voussoir

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

arch stone

wedge-shaped stone

wedge block

θολίτης

Voussoir

clavèu

Aduela

kemer taşı

Gewölbstein

σφηνόλιθος

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

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