different between atrium vs forecourt

English

Etymology

From Latin ?trium (“entry hall”), from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.t?i.?m/
• Hyphenation: a?tri?um

Noun

atrium (plural atria or atriums)

1. (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
2. (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
3. (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.

   an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs

   1. (anatomy) One of two upper chambers of the heart.
4. (biology) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.

Synonyms

• (room in Roman homes): cavaedium

Meronyms

• (chamber of the heart): left atrium, right atrium

Holonyms

• (chamber of the heart): heart

Derived terms

• atrial
• atriate
• subatrium

Translations

Further reading

• atrium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Timaru

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin ?trium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??trium/, [??t?rium]
• Rhymes: -?trium
• Syllabification: at?ri?um

Noun

atrium

1. atrium (central room in Roman homes)
2. atrium (square hall lit from above)

Declension

Synonyms

• (square hall): valopiha

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?trium. Doublet of aître.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t?i.j?m/

Noun

atrium m (plural atriums)

1. atrium

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch atrium, from Latin ?trium (“entry hall”), from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [at??ri?m]
• Hyphenation: at?ri?um

Noun

atrium (first-person possessive atriumku, second-person possessive atriummu, third-person possessive atriumnya)

1. atrium:

   Synonym: serambi

   1. (architecture) a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

      Synonym: beranda

   2. (anatomy) cavity, entrance, or passage.
   3. (anatomy) one of two upper chambers of the heart.

Further reading

• “atrium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

• Either from Ancient Greek ??????? (aíthrion, “under the sky, open”),
• or related to Latin ?ter, Umbrian ???????????????? (atru), Oscan ???????????????????????????????? (aadíriis),
• or from Etruscan ???????????????? (e??a, “atrium, temple, house, domus”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.tri.um/, [?ä?t??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.tri.um/, [???t??ium]

Noun

?trium n (genitive ?tri? or ?tr?); second declension

1. a welcoming room in a Roman villa; reception hall
2. a hall, court in a temple

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• ?tri?rius
• ?tri?nsis
• ?tri?la
• ?tri?lum

Descendants

• Catalan: atri
• ? English: atrium
• Old French: aitre
  • French: aître
  • Norman: aistre (merged with some Norse root explaining the unetymological « s »)
• Galician: adro, atrio
• ? Hungarian: átrium
• Irish: aitriam
• Italian: atrio
• Portuguese: adro, átrio
• Spanish: atrio

See also

• vestibulum

References

• ?tr?um in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• atrium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• atrium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ?tr?um in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 182/3
• atrium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• atrium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “?trium” on page 199 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “atrium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 67

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

atrium n (definite singular atriet, indefinite plural atrier, definite plural atria or atriene)

1. (architecture) an atrium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

atrium n (definite singular atriet, indefinite plural atrium, definite plural atria)

1. (architecture) an atrium

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin atrium

Noun

atrium n (uncountable)

1. atrium

Declension

English

Etymology

fore- +? court

Noun

forecourt (plural forecourts)

1. (chiefly Britain) The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated.
2. (chiefly Britain) Any open area in front of a building.
   • 2007, Pamela Rose, The Meroitic Temple Complex at Qasr Ibrim (volume 84, page 105)

     The first group is incised on the east wall and eastern part of the south wall of the temple forecourt. The second group is incised into the floor and paving stones of the forecourt, extending onto the pavement of the Podium.

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