theaterとは

語源

From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, /ˈθɪə.tɚ/
• (Canada, Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.eɪ.tɚ/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪ.ə.tə(ɹ)/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈθiətə/, [ˈθiə̯tɜ], [ˈθiə̯ɾɜ]
• (Michigan, 一般的ではない用法) IPA^(key): /ˈθjutɚ/, [ˈθyɾɚ]

名詞

theater (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 theaters)

1. 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Oscar Wilde:

     The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.

2. A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

   His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.

3. A lecture theatre.
4. (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

   This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!

5. (US) A cinema.

   We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.

6. Drama or performance as a profession or artform.

   I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.

使用する際の注意点

• The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
• In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
• Among American theatre professionals, there is some usage of the two spellings in order to differentiate between the location theater (as in definitions 1-5) and the art-form theatre (definition 6). A variant of this differentiation is the usage of theatre for things relating to live performances (as in definitions 1 かつ 6) with theater being used for all other uses.

派生語

• theater of war

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of theatre

アナグラム

• hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat