acrolithus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

acrŏlĭthus, a, um, adj., = ἀκρόλιθος (of stone at the extremity): statuae,

statues whose extremities only consisted of marble , the remainder of wood , Treb. Poll. XXX. Tyr. 32 (in Vitr. 2, 8, 11 written as Greek); cf. Müll. Arch. § 48, 1; Winckelm. Hist. Art. 1, 2, 17.