Tuscan order A plain astragal or taenia ringed the column beneath its plain cap. Palladio agreed in essence with Serlio: "The Tuscan, being rough, is rarely used above ground except in one-storey buildings like villa barns or in huge structures like Amphitheatres and the like which, having many orders, can take this one in place of the Doric, under the Ionic." Unlike the other authors Palladio found Roman precedents, of which he named the arena of Verona and the Pula Arena, both of which, James Ackerman points out, are arcuated buildings that did not present columns and entablatures. A striking feature is
Doric Greek (shortened to "-s-" in Attic). Initial "w" (ϝ) is preserved in earlier Doric (lost in Attic). Literary texts in Doric and inscriptions from the Hellenistic age have no digamma. For information on the peculiarities of Doric accentuation, see Ancient Greek accent#Dialect variation Numeral "tetores" ~ Attic "tettares", Ionic "tesseres" "four". Ordinal "prātos" ~ Attic–Ionic "prōtos" "first". Demonstrative pronoun "tēnos" "this" ~ Attic–Ionic "(e)keinos" "t" for "h" (from Proto-Indo-European "s") in article and demonstrative pronoun. Third person plural, athematic or root aorist "-n" ~ Attic "-san". First person plural active "-mes" ~ Attic–Ionic "-men". Future "-se-ō" ~ Attic "-s-ō". Modal particle