anastylose
French, noun/a.nas.ti.loz/
anastylose is a French feminine noun meaning “anastylosis (reassembly of ruined monuments)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Technique de reconstruction d'un monument en ruine grâce à l'étude méthodique de l'ajustement des différents…”.
What does anastylose mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanastylosis (reassembly of ruined monuments)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Technique de reconstruction d'un monument en ruine grâce à l'étude méthodique de l'ajustement des différents éléments qui composent son architecture.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anastylose
- anastyloses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anastylose?
- /a.nas.ti.loz/
- \a.na.sti.lɔz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is anastylose in French?
anastylose appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).