amphitheatrum

• amphiteātrum (Medieval Latin)
• ampitzātru (Late Latin)

From Ancient Greek ἀμφιθέᾱτρον (amphithéātron), from ἀμφί (amphí, “on both sides”) + θέᾱτρον (théātron, “theatre”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [am.pʰɪ.tʰeˈaː.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [am.fi.t̪eˈaː.t̪rum]

amphitheātrum n (genitive amphitheātrī); second declension

1. an amphitheatre, amphitheater

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Catalan: amfiteatre
• English: amphitheatre
• French: amphithéâtre
  • Romanian: amfiteatru
• Galician: anfiteatro
• Italian: anfiteatro
• Portuguese: anfiteatro
• Spanish: anfiteatro

• “amphitheatrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amphitheatrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amphitheatrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “amphitheatrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “amphitheatrum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “amphitheatrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin