Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 20146 6866945 2009-06-22T16:30:19Z DCDuring 43828 /* Verb */ typo [[Image:Ryazan drama theater.jpg|thumb|Ryazan drama '''theatre''']] {{also|théâtre}} ==English== ===Etymology=== Spelling influenced by {{etyl|fr|en}} {{term|théâtre||lang=fr}}; from {{etyl|enm|en}} {{term|theater|lang=enm}}, from {{etyl|fro|en}} {{term|theatre|lang=fro}}, from {{etyl|la|en}} {{term|theatrum|lang=la}}, from {{etyl|grc|en}} {{term|θέατρον||tr=théatron|lang=grc|a place for viewing}}, from {{term|θεάομαι||tr=theáomai|lang=grc|to see", "to watch", "to observe}}. {{:theater/homonyms|theater}} ===Verb=== {{en-verb|theatr|es}} # {{rfv-sense}} {{NZ}} An informal request to cease a labouring or argumentative conversation. Commonly used on [http://www.publicaddress.net/system/ PA System], a well-known New Zealand blog. (Orig.) arising from the absurdism of shouting 'theatre' in a theatre, the term has undergone semantic broadening to include any absurd thread development. #: ''"I '''theatre''' this thread."'' #: a more common usage is the exclamation ''"'''THEATRE'''"'' during a heated, and potentially personal, comment exchange. #: [http://www.publicaddress.net/system/topic,391,hard_news_compromise.sm?p=16068#post16068/ discussion of usage disambiguation] [[el:theatre]] [[fr:theatre]] [[ko:theatre]] [[hy:theatre]] [[io:theatre]] [[it:theatre]] [[kk:theatre]] [[lo:theatre]] [[hu:theatre]] [[nl:theatre]] [[oc:theatre]] [[pl:theatre]] [[ru:theatre]] [[simple:theatre]] [[fi:theatre]] [[sv:theatre]] [[ta:theatre]] [[te:theatre]] [[tr:theatre]] [[uk:theatre]] [[vi:theatre]] [[zh:theatre]]