different between foyer vs atrium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *foc?rium, from Late Latin foc?rius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /?f??.e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???/; also IPA^(key): /?f??.e?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?fo??/

Noun

foyer (plural foyers)

1. A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

   We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.

2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
3. (Britain) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

Translations

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Noun

foyer m

1. theater lobby, foyer.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French foier, from Vulgar Latin *foc?rium, from Late Latin foc?rius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???je?/
• Hyphenation: foy?er
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers, diminutive foyertje n)

1. foyer (lobby, waiting room or parlour)

Related terms

• focus

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *foc?rium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective foc?rius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa.je/

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers)

1. hearth
2. lobby, foyer
3. home, domicile
4. household
5. source, centre, seat

Derived terms

• homme au foyer
• femme au foyer

Related terms

• feu

Descendants

Further reading

• “foyer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa?j?/

Noun

foyer n (indeclinable)

1. foyer (lobby, corridor, or waiting room)

Further reading

• foyer in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• foyer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?aj??/

Noun

foyer m (genitive singular foyeru, nominative plural foyery, genitive plural foyerov, declension pattern of dub)
foyer n

1. foyer

Declension

Usage notes

• When used in the neuter gender, the word is indeclineable.

Further reading

• foyer in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English foyer or French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa?je/, [fwa?je]

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers or foyer)

1. foyer

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