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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)
- Estonian: frontoon
- 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)