Cymatium

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A molding on the cornice, above the corona, often having a wavelike form (cyma).

    "The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall."

  2. 2
    (architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile it is shaped like an S (partly concave and partly convex) wordnet

Etymology

From Latin cȳmatium (“ogee”), from the Ancient Greek κῡμάτιον (kūmátion), the diminutive form of κῦμα (kûma, “wave”), whence cyma.

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