different between gallery vs triforium

English

Etymology

From Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl??i/
• Hyphenation: gal?le?ry

Noun

gallery (plural galleries)

1. An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
2. An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
3. The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
4. (law) The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
5. A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
6. The spectators of an event, collectively.
7. (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.

   a gallery of image thumbnails

   a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

8. (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
9. (mining) a level or drive in a mine.

Derived terms

Related terms

• gallerist

Translations

Verb

gallery (third-person singular simple present galleries, present participle gallerying, simple past and past participle galleried)

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) To show off

Further reading

• gallery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gallery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gallery at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allergy, largely, regally

English

Etymology

From Latin triforium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?a???f?????m/

Noun

triforium (plural triforia or triforiums)

1. (architecture) The gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

triforium n (genitive trifori? or trifor?); second declension

1. triforium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Descendants

• ? English: triforium
• Italian: triforio
• Spanish: triforio

References

• triforium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

triforium n (definite singular triforiet, indefinite plural triforier, definite plural triforia or triforiene)

1. (architecture) triforium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

triforium n (definite singular triforiet, indefinite plural triforium, definite plural triforia)

1. (architecture) triforium