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A caryatid is a pillar in the shape of a woman. Instead of a plain round column holding up a roof, the building uses a standing female figure, often in long clothes, and her head (with the stone block above it) takes the weight. The famous ones stand on an old temple porch in Athens. The name comes from Karyai, a town in Greece with a temple of and a festival dance; the Greeks used that name for these supporting women. A male figure used the same way is an atlas or a telamon, not a caryatid. You will meet the word in art and architecture, not in shops. It is said roughly ka-RYE-uh-tid.
女像柱
組成Does not split in English. From Middle French cariatide, from Latin caryatides, from Ancient Greek Karyátides, the women of Karyai (a town in Laconia with a temple of Artemis). Those festival dancers gave their name to female figures used as bearing-shafts.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
caryatidnoun/ˌkɛəɹiˈætɪd/
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A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
- She wore on the top of her head an upright circular cap that made her resemble a caryatid disburdened, and on other parts of her person strange combinations of colours, stuffs, shapes, of metal, mineral and plant.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。