foyer

See also: Foyer and foþer

English

A foyer in an opera house

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪɝ/; also IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɪɘ/

• Audio (CA):

  (file)

Noun

foyer (plural foyers)

1. A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

   We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.

2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
3. (UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

Translations

lobby, corridor, or waiting room

• Armenian: ճեմասրահ (hy) (čemasrah), ֆոյե (hy) (foye)
• Bulgarian: фоайе (bg) n (foaje)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門廳／门厅 (zh) (méntīng), 门厅 (zh) (méntīng), 休息室 (zh), 休息室 (zh) (xiūxishì)

• Danish: foyer c
• Finnish: aula (fi), lämpiö (fi)
• French: foyer (fr) m
• German: Foyer (de) n
• Icelandic: anddyri (is) n, forsalur m, forstofa (is) f, fordyri n, forbyrgi n
• Irish: forhalla m
• Maori: roro, tomokanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: foajé (no) m

  Nynorsk: foajé m

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• Portuguese: saguão (pt) m
• Russian: фойе́ (ru) n (fojé)
• Rusyn: фойе́ n (fojé)
• Serbo-Croatian: foaje (sh) m
• Slovak: foyer m or n
• Spanish: zaguán (es) m
• Swedish: foajé (sv) c, entré (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulutan

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Noun

1. theater lobby, foyer.

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa.je/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers)

1. hearth
2. lobby, foyer
3. home, domicile
4. household
5. source, centre, seat

Related terms

• feu

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: foye
• → Czech: foyer
• → English: foyer
• → German: Foyer
• → Norwegian Bokmål: foajé
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: foajé
• → Russian: фойе́ (fojé) (see there for further descendants)
• → Slovak: foyer

Further reading

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

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Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔajɛː/

Noun

foyer m (genitive singular foyeru, nominative plural foyery, genitive plural foyerov, declension pattern of dub)
foyer n

1. foyer

Declension

Declension of foyer

	singular	plural
nominative	foyer	foyery
genitive	foyeru	foyerov
dative	foyeru	foyerom
accusative	foyer	foyery
locative	foyeri	foyeroch
instrumental	foyerom	foyermi

Usage notes

• When used in the neuter gender, the word is indeclineable.

External links

• “foyer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English foyer or French foyer.

Pronunciation

•  

• IPA^(key): /foˈʝeɾ/ [foˈʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /foˈʝeɾ/ [foˈʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /foˈʃeɾ/ [foˈʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /foˈʒeɾ/ [foˈʒeɾ]

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers or foyer)

1. foyer