théâtre
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, to watch, to observe”).
Pronunciation
- (Paris) IPA(key): /te.ɑtʁ/
Audio; “le théâtre”: (file)
- (Switzerland, Belgium) IPA(key): [teˈaːtʁ̥]
Audio (Brussels): (file)
- (Switzerland, Canton of Valais; Quebec, standard) IPA(key): [te.ˈɑːtʁ̥]
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
- (Quebec, nonstandard) IPA(key): [teˈɑu̯tʁ̥]
Audio (Montreal): (file)
Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Noun
théâtre m (plural théâtres)
- theatre (venue for performing plays and drama; performing art form)
- (Missouri, Louisiana) a movie theater
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: teyat
- → Persian: تئاتر (te'âtr), تیاتر (tiyâtr)
- → Romanian: teatru
- → Russian: теа́тр (teátr), теа́тръ (teátr) — pre-1918 spelling, 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 (tïyaatïr), тийээтир (tiyeetir)
- → Swedish: teater (partially derived from French)
References
- Etymology and history of “théâtre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Further reading
- “théâtre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012