theatrum

From Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, to watch, to observe”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tʰeˈaː.trum/, [tʰɛˈaː.trũ]

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theātrum n (genitive theātrī); second declension

1. A theatre or theater, playhouse; stage.

Second declension.

• theātrālis

• amphitheātrum
• theātricus

• theatrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• theatrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• theatrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• theatrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the playhouse: theatrum
    
• theatrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• theatrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin