Doric order proportions. It is suggested that these proportions give the Doric columns a masculine appearance, whereas the more slender Ionic columns appear to represent a more feminine look. This sense of masculinity and femininity was often used to determine which type of column would be used for a particular structure. The most influential, and perhaps the earliest, use of the Doric in Renaissance architecture was in the circular "Tempietto" by Donato Bramante (1502 or later), in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. Before Greek Revival architecture grew, initially in England, in the 18th century, the Greek or elaborated Roman
Doric Greek "ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "an". Temporal adverbs in "-ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "-te". Locative adverbs in "-ei" ~ Attic/Koine "-ou". The aorist and future of verbs in "-izō", "-azō" has "x" (versus Attic/Koine "s"). Similarly "k" before suffixes beginning with "t". Argive Cretan Laconian Magna Graecian Doric Aetolian-Acarnanian Delphic-Locrian Elean Epirotic Doric Greek Doric, or Dorian, was an Ancient Greek dialect. Its variants were spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese as well as in Sicily, Epirus, Southern Italy, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea and some cities on the south east coast of Anatolia. Together with Northwest Greek,