auditorium

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/
• (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

Translations

large room for public meetings or performances

Afrikaans: aula Albanian: auditor (sq) m Bulgarian: зала (bg) (zala), салон (bg) (salon) Catalan: auditori (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 禮堂／礼堂 (zh) (lǐtáng), 會堂／会堂 (zh) (huìtáng) Dutch: gehoorzaal (nl) c, zaal (nl) c, auditorium (nl) n Esperanto: aŭlo Finnish: auditorio (fi) French: amphi (fr) m Galician: auditorio m Georgian: აუდიტორია (audiṭoria) Greek: αίθουσα (el) f (aíthousa) Hungarian: előadóterem (hu), auditórium (hu), hangversenyterem (hu) Irish: halla éisteachta m Italian: sala (it) f Japanese: 講堂 (ja) (こうどう, kōdō) Kazakh: дәрісхана (kk) (därısxana) Kyrgyz: дарыскана (ky) (darıskana) Latin: auditorium n Mongolian: өрөө (mn) (öröö) Polish: audytorium (pl) n Portuguese: auditório (pt) m Quechua: rimaq pampa Russian: аудито́рия (ru) f (auditórija), зал (ru) m (zal) Somali: dhismo weyn oo Spanish: auditorio (es) m, sala (es) f Swedish: hörsal (sv) c, aula (sv) c (in school), auditorium (sv) n Tagalog: bulwagan Tatar: тамаша залы (tamaşa zalı) Tongan: holo Turkish: oditoryum (tr) Vietnamese: giảng đường (vi) Yiddish: זאַל‎ m (zal)

space where the audience is located

Armenian: հանդիսասրահ (hy) (handisasrah) Bulgarian: аудитория (bg) (auditorija) Catalan: auditori (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 禮堂／礼堂 (zh) (lǐtáng), 會堂／会堂 (zh) (huìtáng) Czech: hlediště (cs) n Danish: auditorium n Dutch: auditorium (nl) n Finnish: katsomo (fi) French: salle (fr) f, auditorium (fr) m, auditoire (fr) m (Belgium) German: Zuschauerraum (de) n, Auditorium (de) n Greek: ακροατήριο (el) n (akroatírio) Hungarian: nézőtér (hu) Italian: auditorio (it) m, auditorium (it) m Norwegian: Bokmål: auditorium n Nynorsk: auditorium n Polish: widownia (pl) f, audytorium (pl) n Portuguese: auditório (pt) m Romanian: aulă (ro) f Russian: зри́тельный зал m (zrítelʹnyj zal), аудито́рия (ru) f (auditórija) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: glèdalīšte (sh) n Slovak: auditorium n Spanish: auditorio (es) m Swedish: salong (sv) c

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Japanese: (please verify) 講堂 (ja) (kōdō)

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Danish

Alternative forms

• auditorie

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

• “auditorium” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “auditorium” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑu̯.diˈtoː.ri.ʏm/

• Audio

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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

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.di.tɔ.ʁjɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

auditorium m (plural auditoriums)

1. auditorium

Further reading

• “auditorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch auditorium, from Latin audītōrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [au̯d̪itoˈriʊm]
• 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

• aditorium

Further reading

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯.diːˈtoː.ri.um/, [äu̯d̪iːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯.diˈto.ri.um/, [äu̯d̪iˈt̪ɔːrium]

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

• audītōriālis (adjective)

Related terms

• audiēns
• audientia
• audiō
• audītiō
• audītor
• audītōrius
• audītus

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: auditori
• → English: auditorium
• → French: auditoire, auditorium
• → Galician: auditorio
• → Italian: auditorio
• → Portuguese: auditório
• → Romanian: auditoriu
• → Russian: аудито́рия (auditórija)
• → Spanish: auditorio, auditórium

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

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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

Related terms

• forelesningssal

References

• “auditorium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “auditorium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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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

Related terms

• forelesningssal

References

• “auditorium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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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

• auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)