theatrum

Latin

theātrum Pamphȳliae (theater in Pamphylia)

Alternative forms

• teātrum (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, to watch, to observe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tʰeˈaː.trum/, [t̪ʰeˈäːt̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /teˈa.trum/, [t̪eˈäːt̪rum]

Noun

theātrum n (genitive theātrī); second declension

1. A theatre or theater, playhouse; stage.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	theātrum	theātra
Genitive	theātrī	theātrōrum
Dative	theātrō	theātrīs
Accusative	theātrum	theātra
Ablative	theātrō	theātrīs
Vocative	theātrum	theātra

Derived terms

• theātrālis

Related terms

• amphitheātrum
• theātricus

Descendants

• Asturian: teatru
• Catalan: teatre
• Corsican: teatru
• French: théâtre
  • → German: Theater
    • → Silesian: tyjater
    • → Swedish: teater
      • → Finnish: teatteri
  • → Persian: تئاتر
  • → Romanian: teatru
  • → Russian: театр (teatr), теа́тръ (teátr) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Azerbaijani:

      Cyrillic script: театр

      Latin script: teatr

    • → Bashkir: театр (teatr)
    • → Buryat: театр (tjeatr)
    • → Evenki: театр (teatr)
    • → Kalmyk: театр (teatr)
    • → Kazakh:

      Arabic script: تەاتر

      Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)

      Latin script: teatr

    • → Khakas: театр (teatr)
    • → Kyrgyz: театр (teatr)
    • → Livvi: teatru
    • → Mongolian:

      Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)

      Mongolian script: ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ (tiyatr)

    • → Southern Altai: театр (teatr)
    • → Tajik: театр (teatr)
    • → Tatar: театр (teatr)
    • → Tuvan: театр (teatr)
    • → Uyghur:

      Cyrillic script: театр (tëatr)

      Arabic script: تىياتىر (tiyatir)

    • ⇒ Uyghur:

      Cyrillic script: театрхана (tëatrxana)

      Arabic script: تىياتىرخانا (tiyatirxana)

    • → Uzbek:

      Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)

      Latin script: teatr

    • → Yakut: театр (teatr), тыйаатыр (tıyaatır), тийээтир (tiyeetir)
• Galician: teatro
• Istriot: taiatro
• Italian: teatro
  • → Turkish: tiyatro
• → Old French: teatre, theatre
  • → Dutch: theater
    • Afrikaans: teater
    • → Caribbean Javanese: téater
    • → Indonesian: teater
  • → Middle English: theater, theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
    • English: theater, theatre
    • Scots: theatre
  • → Limburgish: teater
• Mirandese: triato
• Portuguese: teatro
  • → Konkani: तियात्र (tiyātra)
    • → English: tiatr
• Sicilian: tiatru
  • → Maltese: teatru
• Spanish: teatro

References

• “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
    
• “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