atrium

English

Wikipedia

A library atrium.

Etymology

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

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) Any enclosed 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

Translations

central room in Roman homes

• Bulgarian: атриум m (átrium)
• Danish: gårdhave, atrium

• Finnish: atrium
• Russian: атриум (ru) m (átrium), атрий (ru) m (átrij)

square hall lit from above

• Danish: atrium
• Finnish: atrium, valopiha
• French: atrium (fr) m
• German: Atrium (de) n
• Greek: αίθριο (el) n (aíthrio)
• Hungarian: átrium (hu)

• Portuguese: átrio (pt) m
• Romanian: atrium (ro) n
• Russian: атриум (ru) m (átrium), атрий (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)
• Romanian: atriu (ro) n

chamber of the heart

• Armenian: նախասիրտ (naxasirt)
• Bulgarian: ухо на предсърдието (uho na predsǎrdieto)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心房 (zh) (xīnfáng)

• Finnish: eteinen (fi)
• French: oreillette (fr) f
• German: Atrium (de) n

• Greek: κόλπος (el) m (kólpos)
• Japanese: アトリウム (atoriumu)
• Polish: przedsionek m
• Russian: предсердие (ru) n (predsérdije)
• Spanish: aurícula (es) f
• Swedish: förmak n, atrium (sv) n (rare)

Derived terms

• atrial
• atriate

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Finnish

Noun

atrium

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

Declension

Declension of atrium (Kotus type 5/risti)

		singular	plural
nominative		atrium	atriumit
accusative	zero?	atrium	atriumit
	normal	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

Synonyms

• (square hall): valopiha

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Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tri.um/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

ātrium n (genitive ātriī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension neuter.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	ātrium	ātria
genitive	ātriī	ātriōrum
dative	ātriō	ātriīs
accusative	ātrium	ātria
ablative	ātriō	ātriīs
vocative	ātrium	ātria

Derived terms

• ātriēnsis
• ātriōlum

See also

• vestibulum

Descendants

• English: atrium