auditorium

See also: Auditorium, and auditórium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/
• 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), 礼堂 (zh) (lǐtáng), 會堂／会堂 (zh) (huìtáng), 会堂 (zh) (huìtáng)

• Dutch: gehoorzaal (nl) c, zaal (nl) c, auditorium (nl) n
• 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
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• Japanese: 講堂 (こうどう, kōdō)
• Kazakh: дәрісхана (kk) (därısxana)
• 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 m, sala (es) f
• 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), 礼堂 (zh) (lǐtáng), 會堂／会堂 (zh) (huìtáng), 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
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• 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 m
• Swedish: auditorium (sv) n

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• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 講堂 (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:

  (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

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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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯.diːˈtoː.ri.um/, [äu̯d̪iːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate 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).

	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

(deprecated template usage) 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^[1]
• “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

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

Further reading

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