teatre
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
teatre m (plural teatres)
Related terms
Further reading
- “teatre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “teatre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “teatre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “teatre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Noun
teatre n
- indefinite plural of teater
Middle English
Noun
teatre
- alternative form of theater
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
teatre n
- indefinite plural of teater
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin theātrum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see; to watch; to observe”).
Noun
teatre oblique singular, m (oblique plural teatres, nominative singular teatres, nominative plural teatre)
- (countable) theater (a place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on)
Descendants
- Middle French: theatre
- French: théâtre
- Haitian Creole: teyat
- → Persian: تئاتر (te'âtr), تیاتر (tiyâtr)
- → Romanian: teatru
- → Russian: теа́тр (teátr), теа́тръ (teátr) — Pre-reform orthography (1918), ѳеа́тръ (feátr), феа́тр (feátr) — archaic
- → Azerbaijani:
- → Bashkir: театр (teatr)
- → Buryat: театр (tjeatr)
- → Crimean Tatar: teatr
- → Evenki: театр (teatr)
- → Kalmyk: театр (teatr)
- → Kazakh:
- → Khakas: театр (teatr)
- → Kyrgyz: театр (teatr)
- → Livvi: teatru
- → Mongolian:
- Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)
- Mongolian script: ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ (tiyatr)
- → Southern Altai: театр (teatr)
- → Tajik: театр (teatr)
- → Tatar: театр (teatr)
- → Tuvan: театр (teatr)
- → Uyghur:
- ⇒ Uyghur:
- Cyrillic script: театрхана (tëatrxana)
- Arabic script: تىياتىرخانا (tiyatirxana)
- → Uzbek:
- → Yakut: театр (teatr), тыйаатыр (tıyaatır), тийээтир (tiyeetir)
- French: théâtre
- → Middle English: theater, theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
References
- teatre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Romanian
Noun
teatre
- plural of teatru