# auditorium
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌɔ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm/
* (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA: /ˈɑ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm/

### Noun

auditorium (plural auditoriums or auditoria)
* a large room for public meetings or performances
* (in a theater, etc.) the space where the audience is located

#### Derived terms

* cafetorium
* gymnatorium
* odditorium

#### Translations

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## Danish
### Alternative forms

* auditorie

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

### Noun

auditorium n (singular definite auditoriet, plural indefinite auditorier)
* auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɑu̯.diˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: audi‧to‧ri‧um
* Rhymes: -oːriʏm

### Noun

auditorium n (plural auditoria or auditoriums, diminutive auditoriumpje n)
* auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)
    Synonym: gehoorzaal

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: auditorium

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o.di.tɔ.ʁjɔm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

auditorium m (plural auditoriums)
* auditorium

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch auditorium, from Latin audītōrium.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /au̯ditoˈrium/ [au̯.di.t̪oˈri.ʊm]
* Rhymes: -um
* Syllabification: au‧di‧to‧ri‧um

### Noun

auditorium (plural)
* 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.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯.diːˈtoː.ri.um/, [äu̯d̪iːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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
* (law) a hearing of a cause at law, a judicial examination
* the place where something (a discourse, a lecture) is heard; a lecture room, hall of justice
* a school, in opposite to public life
* an assembled group of listeners; an audience, auditory

##### Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found 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
* inflection of audītōrius:
** accusative masculine singular
** 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

* (Johor) IPA: /awdiˈtorjom/ [au̯.diˈt̪o.rjom]
* (Riau-Lingga, Penang, Baku) IPA: /awdiˈtorjum/ [au̯.diˈt̪o.rjum]
* Hyphenation: au‧di‧to‧rium

### Noun

auditorium (Jawi spelling اءوديتوريوم, plural auditorium-auditorium, informal 1st possessive auditoriumku, 2nd possessive auditoriummu, 3rd possessive auditoriumnya)
* auditorium

### Further reading

* “auditorium” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin auditorium.

### Noun

auditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorier, definite plural auditoria or auditoriene)
* an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
* the audience in an auditorium

#### Related terms

* forelesningssal

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin auditorium.

### Noun

auditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorium, definite plural auditoria)
* an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
* the audience in an auditorium

#### Related terms

* forelesningssal

### References

* “auditorium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin audītōrium.

### Noun

auditorium n
* an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
    Synonym: hörsal
* the audience in an auditorium

#### Declension
### Further reading

* auditorium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)