auditorium

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See also: Auditorium and auditórium

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

auditorium (plural auditoriums or auditoria)

  1. a large room for public meetings or performances
  2. (in a theater, etc.) the space where the audience is located

Derived terms

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Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

Noun

auditorium n (singular definite auditoriet, plural indefinite auditorier)

  1. auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)

Declension

Declension of auditorium
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative auditorium auditoriet auditorier auditorierne
genitive auditoriums auditoriets auditoriers auditoriernes

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑu̯.diˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
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  • Hyphenation: audi‧to‧ri‧um
  • Rhymes: -oːriʏm

Noun

auditorium n (plural auditoria or auditoriums, diminutive auditoriumpje n)

  1. auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)
    Synonym: gehoorzaal

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: auditorium

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

Noun

auditorium m (plural auditoriums)

  1. auditorium

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch auditorium, from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

Noun

auditorium (plural auditorium-auditorium)

  1. auditorium
    Synonym: aula

Alternative forms

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Nominalized neuter form of the adjective audītōrius (“relating to a hearer or hearing”); equivalent to audītor (“hearer”) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix) or audiō (“to hear, listen to”) +‎ -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places).

Noun

audītōrium n (genitive audītōriī or audītōrī); second declension

  1. (law) a hearing of a cause at law, a judicial examination
  2. the place where something (a discourse, a lecture) is heard; a lecture room, hall of justice
  3. a school, in opposite to public life
  4. an assembled group of listeners; an audience, auditory
Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative audītōrium audītōria
genitive audītōriī
audītōrī1 		audītōriōrum
dative audītōriō audītōriīs
accusative audītōrium audītōria
ablative audītōriō audītōriīs
vocative audītōrium audītōria

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

Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

audītōrium

  1. inflection of audītōrius:
    1. accusative masculine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

  • “auditorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “auditorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "auditorium", 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)
  • “auditorium”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “auditorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “auditorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Malay

Etymology

From English auditorium.

Pronunciation

Noun

auditorium (Jawi spelling اءوديتوريوم, plural auditorium-auditorium)

  1. auditorium

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin auditorium.

Noun

auditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorier, definite plural auditoria or auditoriene)

  1. an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
  2. the audience in an auditorium

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin auditorium.

Noun

auditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorium, definite plural auditoria)

  1. an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
  2. the audience in an auditorium

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin audītōrium.

Noun

auditorium n

  1. an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
    Synonym: hörsal
  2. the audience in an auditorium

Declension

Declension of auditorium
nominative genitive
singular indefinite auditorium auditoriums
definite auditoriet auditoriets
plural indefinite auditorier auditoriers
definite auditorierna auditoriernas

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