auditorium

See also: Auditorium and auditórium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/
  • (file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɔ.dəˈtɔɹ.i.əm/

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

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑu̯.diˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
  • (file)
  • 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

  • IPA(key): /o.di.tɔ.ʁjɔm/
  • (file)

Noun

auditorium m (plural auditoriums)

  1. auditorium

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch auditorium, from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awditoˈrium/, [au̯.di.t̪oˈri.um]
  • Hyphenation: au‧di‧to‧ri‧um

Noun

auditorium (plural auditorium-auditorium, first-person possessive auditoriumku, second-person possessive auditoriummu, third-person possessive auditoriumnya)

  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).

Case 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, informal 1st possessive auditoriumku, 2nd possessive auditoriummu, 3rd possessive auditoriumnya)

  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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative auditorium auditoriet auditorier auditorierna
Genitive auditoriums auditoriets auditoriers auditoriernas

Further reading

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