atrium
English
Etymology
From Latin ātrium (“entry hall”), from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
Noun
atrium (plural atria or atriums)
- (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
- (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
- (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.
- an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs
- (biology) 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
Meronyms
- (chamber of the heart): left atrium, right atrium
Holonyms
- (chamber of the heart): heart
Derived terms
Translations
central room in Roman homes
square hall lit from above
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body cavity
one of two upper chambers of the heart
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Finnish
Noun
atrium
- atrium (central room in Roman homes)
- atrium (square hall lit from above)
Declension
Inflection of atrium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | atriumitta | atriumeitta | ||
instructive | — | atriumein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (square hall): valopiha
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ātrium. Doublet of aître.
Pronunciation
Noun
atrium m (plural atriums)
Latin
Etymology
- Either from Ancient Greek αἴθριον (aíthrion, “under the sky, open”),
- or from āter,
- or from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaː.tri.um/, [ˈäːt̪riʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.tri.um/, [ˈäːt̪rium]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
ātrium n (genitive ātriī or ātrī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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
Descendants
- English: atrium
- Galician: adro
- Hungarian: átrium
- Irish: aitriam
- Italian: atrio
- Portuguese: adro, átrio
- Spanish: atrio
See also
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: E. J. Brill, page 67
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