noun · neutersecond declension
audītōrium
audītōrium n (genitive audītōriī or audītōrī)
Classical[au̯.diːˈtoː.ri.ũː]Ecclesiastical[au̯.diˈtɔː.ri.um]
Meaning
- 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
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | audītōrium | audītōria |
| genitive | audītōriī audītōrī | audītōriōrum |
| dative | audītōriō | audītōriīs |
| accusative | audītōrium | audītōria |
| ablative | audītōriō | audītōriīs |
| vocative | audītōrium | audītōria |
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
audītōrium ī, n
auditor, a lecture-room, Ta.
Origins
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).
Descendants
- Catalanauditori
- Englishauditorium
- Frenchauditoire
- Frenchauditorium
- Italianauditorio
- Portugueseauditório
- Romanianauditoriu
- Spanishauditorio
- Spanishauditórium
- Galicianauditorio