Hypertext Webster Gateway: "anta"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Anta \An"ta\, n.; pl. {Ant[ae]}. [L.] (Arch.)
A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its
termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with
capital and base.
Note: Porches, when columns stand between two ant[ae], are
called in Latin in antis.
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