- pilaster
[pilaster 词源字典]
- pilaster: see pillar
[pilaster etymology, pilaster origin, 英语词源] - pilaster (n.)
- a square column, 1570s, from Middle French pilastre (1540s), from Italian pilastro, from Medieval Latin pilastrum (mid-14c.), from pila, "buttress, pile" (from Latin pila, see pillar) + Latin -aster, suffix "expressing incomplete resemblance" [Barnhart].