Cavetto molding
Round concave molding continuing at least a quarter circle.
From (Italian) cavare: "to hollow." ...
cavetto - a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section
moulding, molding - a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing ...
cavetto: concave moulding about a quarter-circle in section
cella: principal interior of a temple, housing the cult image chamfered a corner truncated at an angle of about 45 degrees.
Cavetto (Concave)
- a moulding with a concave profile describing a quarter of a circle.
Cavetto - a hollow concave molding sometimes employed in the place of the cymatium of a cornice, as in that of the Doric order of the theatre of Marcellus. Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Cavetto". Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.).
A roof continuing down in one plane over a lower projection.Cavetto
Classical concave moulding of quarter-round section.Cell
One of a series of small rooms; also a compartment of a groin-vault or rib-vault.Cella ...
APOPHYGE (Gr. a r04vyi, a flying off), in architecture, the lowest part of the shaft of an Ionic or Corinthian column, or the highest member of its base if the column be considered as a whole. The apophyge is the inverted cavetto or concave sweep, ...
building, by reason of indentures, or channels left in the joinings; used chiefly in the corners of buildings, and called rustic quoins. The cavity or indenture may be round, square, chamfered, bevelled, diamond-shaped, or enclosed with a cavetto or ...
 See also: Architecture, Cornice, Molding, Quarter, Moulding
  
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