groin vault

English

Renaissance groin vault in the church of Santa Maria dei Carmini in Venice.

Noun

groin vault (plural groin vaults)

1. (architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel-vaults crossing in a right angle. Its thrusts are concentrated along the groins or arrises and eventually at the four corners

Synonyms

• groined vault, cross vault, double barrel vault

Translations

structure created by intersection of vaults

• Catalan: volta per aresta f
• Dutch: kruisgraatgewelf n, kruisgewelf n
• Finnish: ristiholvi
• German: Kreuzgratgewölbe (de) n, Kreuzgewölbe (de) n
• Italian: volta a crociera f
• Norwegian: krysshvelv n
• Swedish: kryssvalv n, korsvalv n