teatre

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [teˈa.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [teˈa.tɾe]

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• Rhymes: -atɾe

Noun

teatre m (plural teatres)

1. theater

Related terms

• amfiteatre
• teatral

Further reading

• “teatre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “teatre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “teatre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “teatre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

teatre n

1. indefinite plural of teater

Middle English

Noun

teatre

1. Alternative form of theater

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

teatre n

1. indefinite plural of teater

Old French

Alternative forms

• theatre

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin theātrum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see; to watch; to observe”).

Noun

teatre oblique singular, m (oblique plural teatres, nominative singular teatres, nominative plural teatre)

1. (countable) theater (a place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on)

Descendants

• Middle French: theatre
  • French: théâtre
    • Haitian Creole: teyat
    • → Persian: تئاتر (te'âtr), تیاتر (tiyâtr)
    • → Romanian: teatru
    • → Russian: теа́тр (teátr), теа́тръ (teátr) — Pre-reform orthography (1918), ѳеа́тръ (feátr), феа́тр (feátr) — archaic
      • → Azerbaijani:

        Cyrillic script: театр

        Latin script: teatr

      • → Bashkir: театр (teatr)
      • → Buryat: театр (tjeatr)
      • → Crimean Tatar: teatr
      • → Evenki: театр (teatr)
      • → Kalmyk: театр (teatr)
      • → Kazakh:

        Arabic script: تەاتر

        Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)

        Latin script: teatr

      • → 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:

        Cyrillic script: театр (tëatr)

        Arabic script: تىياتىر (tiyatir)

      • ⇒ Uyghur:

        Cyrillic script: театрхана (tëatrxana)

        Arabic script: تىياتىرخانا (tiyatirxana)

      • → Uzbek:

        Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)

        Latin script: teatr

      • → Yakut: театр (teatr), тыйаатыр (tıyaatır), тийээтир (tiyeetir)
• Middle English: theater, theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
  • English: theater, theatre
  • Scots: theatre

References

• teatre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Romanian

Noun

teatre

1. plural of teatru