theatrum
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, to watch, to observe”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /tʰeˈaː.trum/, [t̪ʰeˈäːt̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /teˈa.trum/, [t̪eˈäːt̪rum]
Noun
[edit]theātrum n (genitive theātrī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | theātrum | theātra |
genitive | theātrī | theātrōrum |
dative | theātrō | theātrīs |
accusative | theātrum | theātra |
ablative | theātrō | theātrīs |
vocative | theātrum | theātra |
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: teatru
- Catalan: teatre
- Corsican: teatru
- French: théâtre
- → German: Theater
- → Persian: تئاتر
- → Romanian: teatru
- → Russian: театр (teatr), теа́тръ (teátr) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Azerbaijani:
- → Bashkir: театр (teatr)
- → Buryat: театр (tjeatr)
- → Evenki: театр (teatr)
- → Kalmyk: театр (teatr)
- → Kazakh:
- → Khakas: театр (teatr)
- → Kyrgyz: театр (teatr)
- → Livvi: teatru
- → Mongolian:
- → Southern Altai: театр (teatr)
- → Tajik: театр (teatr)
- → Tatar: театр (teatr)
- → Tuvan: театр (teatr)
- → Uyghur:
- ⇒ Uyghur:
- Cyrillic script: театрхана (tëatrxana)
- Arabic script: تىياتىرخانا (tiyatirxana)
- → Uzbek:
- → Yakut: театр (teatr), тыйаатыр (tıyaatır), тийээтир (tiyeetir)
- Galician: teatro
- Istriot: taiatro
- Italian: teatro
- → Turkish: tiyatro
- → Old French: teatre, theatre
- Mirandese: triato
- Portuguese: teatro
- Sicilian: tiatru
- → Maltese: teatru
- Spanish: teatro
References
[edit]- “theatrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “theatrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- theatrum 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)
- theatrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the playhouse: theatrum
- the playhouse: theatrum
- “theatrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “theatrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin