atrium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.tɹi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: a‧tri‧um

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) A cavity, entrance, or passage.

   an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs

4. (biology) Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
5. (anatomy) An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
6. (anatomy) A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus.
7. (palynology) A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the 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, 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

• atrial
• atriate
• subatrium

Translations

Further reading

• atrium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Timaru

Etruscan

Romanization

atrium

1. Romanization of 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌌

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin ātrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑtrium/,
• Rhymes: -ɑtrium
• Syllabification^(key): at‧ri‧um

Noun

atrium

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

Declension

Synonyms

• (square hall): valopiha

Derived terms

Further reading

• “atrium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ātrium. Doublet of aître.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁi.jɔm/

• Audio

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Noun

atrium m (plural atriums)

1. atrium

Further reading

• “atrium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

atrium

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: at‧ri‧um

Noun

atrium (first-person possessive atriumku, second-person possessive atriummu, third-person possessive atriumnya)

1. atrium:

   Synonym: serambi

   1. (architecture) a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

      Synonym: beranda

   2. (anatomy) cavity, entrance, or passage.
   3. (anatomy) one of two upper chambers of the heart.

Further reading

• “atrium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

• Either from Ancient Greek αἴθριον (aíthrion, “under the sky, open”) (see αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “clear sky, heaven”)),
• or related to Latin āter, Umbrian 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌖 (atru), Oscan 𐌀𐌀𐌃𐌝𐌓𐌉𐌉𐌔 (aadíriis), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁tr-yom,
• or from Etruscan 𐌀𐌈𐌓𐌄 (aθre, “atrium, temple, house, domus”).

Related to Etruscan 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌌 (atrium).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tri.um/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tri.um/,

Noun

ātrium n (genitive ātriī or ātrī); second declension

1. a welcoming room in a Roman villa; reception hall, main court
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.665–666:

     It clāmor ad altā / ātria

     An outcry goes up to the height of the halls.
     (Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “the high halls”; Knight, 1956: “the palace-roof”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “the high chambers”; West, 1990: “the high walls of the palace”; Ahl, 2007: “high through the courtyard’s open roof”; Ruden, 2021: “to the rooftop”.)

2. a hall, court in a temple

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• ātriārius
• ātriēnsis
• ātriola
• ātriolum

Descendants

See also

• Ātrius
• vestibulum

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

atrium n (definite singular atriet, indefinite plural atrier, definite plural atria or atriene)

1. (architecture) an atrium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

atrium n (definite singular atriet, indefinite plural atrium, definite plural atria)

1. (architecture) an atrium

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

atrium

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ātrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.rjum/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -atrjum
• Syllabification: at‧rium

Noun

atrium n

1. (architecture) atrium (a square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels)
2. (architecture, Ancient Rome) atrium (a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings)
3. (anatomy) atrium (one of two upper chambers of the heart)

   Synonym: przedsionek

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• atrium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• atrium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin atrium.

Noun

atrium n (uncountable)

1. atrium

Declension