atrium

English

A library atrium.

Etymology

From Latin ātrium (“entry hall”), from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.tɹi.əm/

• Audio (UK)

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• Hyphenation: a‧tri‧um

Noun

atrium (plural atria or atriums)

1. (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
2. (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
3. (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.

   an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs

4. (biology) Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
5. (anatomy) An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
6. (anatomy) A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus.
7. (palynology) A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
   • 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County‎^[1], page 52:

     Nexine 0.5μ thick, separating from the sexine about 5μ from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium.

Synonyms

• (room in Roman homes): cavaedium

Meronyms

• (chamber of the heart): left atrium, right atrium

Holonyms

• (chamber of the heart): heart

Derived terms

• atrial
• atriate
• subatrium

Translations

central room in Roman homes

• Bulgarian: а́триум m (átrium)
• Catalan: atri (ca) m
• Czech: atrium
• Danish: gårdhave, atrium
• Finnish: atrium (fi)
• Hungarian: átrium (hu)
• Indonesian: atrium (id), beranda (id)
• Japanese: アトリウム (atoriumu)

• Latin: ātrium n
• Occitan: atri m
• Polish: atrium (pl)
• Portuguese: átrio (pt) m
• Russian: а́триум (ru) m (átrium), а́трий (ru) m (átrij)
• Serbo-Croatian: atrij (sh)
• Slovene: atrij (sl)
• Turkish: atriyum (tr)

square hall lit from above

• Catalan: atri (ca) m
• Danish: atrium
• Finnish: atrium (fi), valopiha (fi)
• French: atrium (fr) m
• German: Atrium (de) n
• Greek: αίθριο (el) n (aíthrio)
• Hungarian: átrium (hu)
• Italian: cavedio (it) m
• Japanese: アトリウム (atoriumu)

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: guhik (ku) m

• Latin: cavaedium n
• Polish: atrium (pl) n
• Portuguese: átrio (pt) m
• Romanian: atrium (ro) n
• Russian: а́триум (ru) m (átrium), а́трий (ru) m (átrij)
• Slovene: atrij (sl) m
• Spanish: atrio (es) m
• Tamil: அறை (ta) (aṟai)

body cavity

• Czech: předsíň (cs) f
• Dutch: boezem (nl) m, atrium (nl) n
• Finnish: ontelo (fi)
• Greek: κόλπος (el) m (kólpos)
• Hebrew: עלייה‎ (he) f (aliya)

• Indonesian: atrium (id)
• Irish: aitriam m
• Portuguese: átrio (pt) m, aurícula f
• Romanian: atriu (ro) n

one of two upper chambers of the heart

• Arabic: أُذَيْن‎ m (ʾuḏayn)
• Armenian: նախասիրտ (hy) (naxasirt)
• Bulgarian: ухо на предсърдието (uho na predsǎrdieto)
• Catalan: aurícula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心房 (zh) (xīnfáng)

• Dutch: boezem (nl) m
• Finnish: eteinen (fi)
• French: oreillette (fr) f
• German: Atrium (de) n
• Greek: κόλπος (el) m (kólpos)
• Hungarian: pitvar (hu), szívpitvar (hu)
• Indonesian: atrium (id)
• Japanese: 心房 (ja) (shinbō)

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: guhike m,guhikeya dil m

• Mongolian: тосгуур (mn) (tosguur) ᠲᠣᠰᠭᠠᠭᠤᠷ (tosɣaɣur)
• Polish: przedsionek (pl) m, atrium (pl) n
• Portuguese: átrio (pt) m, aurícula f
• Russian: предсе́рдие (ru) n (predsérdije)
• Spanish: aurícula (es) f
• Swedish: förmak (sv) n, atrium (sv) n (rare)
• Tagalog: silid-anuran
• Turkish: kulakçık (tr)
• Ukrainian: передсе́рдя n (peredsérdja)
• Welsh: atriwm m

Further reading

• atrium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Timaru

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Etruscan

Romanization

atrium • (atrium)

1. Romanization of 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌌

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin ātrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑtrium/, [ˈɑt̪rium]
• Rhymes: -ɑtrium
• Syllabification^(key): at‧ri‧um

Noun

atrium

1. atrium (central room in Roman homes)
2. atrium (square hall lit from above)

Declension

Inflection of atrium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		atrium	atriumit
genitive		atriumin	atriumien
partitive		atriumia	atriumeja
illative		atriumiin	atriumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		atrium	atriumit
accusative	nom.	atrium	atriumit
	gen.	atriumin
genitive		atriumin	atriumien
partitive		atriumia	atriumeja
inessive		atriumissa	atriumeissa
elative		atriumista	atriumeista
illative		atriumiin	atriumeihin
adessive		atriumilla	atriumeilla
ablative		atriumilta	atriumeilta
allative		atriumille	atriumeille
essive		atriumina	atriumeina
translative		atriumiksi	atriumeiksi
instructive		—	atriumein
abessive		atriumitta	atriumeitta
comitative		—	atriumeineen

Possessive forms of atrium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	atriumini	atriumimme
2nd person	atriumisi	atriuminne
3rd person	atriuminsa

Synonyms

• (square hall): valopiha

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ātrium. Doublet of aître.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁi.jɔm/

• Audio

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Noun

atrium m (plural atriums)

1. atrium

Further reading

• “atrium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch atrium, from Latin ātrium (“entry hall”), from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [at̚ˈriʊm]
• Hyphenation: at‧ri‧um

Noun

atrium (first-person possessive atriumku, second-person possessive atriummu, third-person possessive atriumnya)

1. atrium:

   Synonym: serambi

   1. (architecture) a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

      Synonym: beranda

   2. (anatomy) cavity, entrance, or passage.
   3. (anatomy) one of two upper chambers of the heart.

Further reading

• “atrium” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

• Either from Ancient Greek αἴθριον (aíthrion, “under the sky, open”),
• or related to Latin āter, Umbrian 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌖 (atru), Oscan 𐌀𐌀𐌃𐌝𐌓𐌉𐌉𐌔 (aadíriis),
• or from Etruscan 𐌀𐌈𐌓𐌄 (aθre, “atrium, temple, house, domus”).

Related to Etruscan 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌌 (atrium).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tri.um/, [ˈäːt̪riʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tri.um/, [ˈäːt̪rium]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

ātrium n (genitive ātriī or ātrī); second declension

1. a welcoming room in a Roman villa; reception hall
2. a hall, court in a temple

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ātrium	ātria
Genitive	ātriī ātrī1	ātriōrum
Dative	ātriō	ātriīs
Accusative	ātrium	ātria
Ablative	ātriō	ātriīs
Vocative	ātrium	ātria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• ātriārius
• ātriēnsis
• ātriōla
• ātriōlum

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: aitre
      • French: aître
      • Norman: aistre (merged with some Norse root, hence the unetymological ⟨s⟩)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: adriu ⇒ adral
    • Galician: adro
    • Portuguese: adro
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: atri
  • → English: atrium
  • → Galician: atrio
  • → Hungarian: átrium
  • → Irish: aitriam
  • → Italian: atrio
  • → Portuguese: átrio
  • → Spanish: atrio

See also

• vestibulum

References

• “ātrĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “atrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• atrium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ātrĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 182/3
• “atrium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “atrium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “ātrium” on page 199 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “atrium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 67

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

atrium n (definite singular atriet, indefinite plural atrier, definite plural atria or atriene)

1. (architecture) an atrium

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

atrium n (definite singular atriet, indefinite plural atrium, definite plural atria)

1. (architecture) an atrium

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ātrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.rjum/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atrjum
• Syllabification: at‧rium

Noun

atrium n

1. (architecture) atrium (a square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels)
2. (architecture, Ancient Rome) atrium (a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings)
3. (anatomy) atrium (one of two upper chambers of the heart)

   Synonym: przedsionek

Declension

Declension of atrium

	singular	plural
nominative	atrium	atria
genitive	atrium	atriów
dative	atrium	atriom
accusative	atrium	atria
instrumental	atrium	atriami
locative	atrium	atriach
vocative	atrium	atria

Derived terms

adjective

• atrialny

 

Further reading

• atrium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• atrium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin atrium.

Noun

atrium n (uncountable)

1. atrium

Declension

declension of atrium (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) atrium	atriumul
genitive/dative	(unui) atrium	atriumului
vocative	atriumule