English
atrium
Atrium comes from Latin ātrium ‘entry hall’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEātrium‘entry hall’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965atrium
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEātrium‘entry hall’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965atrium
Earliest quotation: 1965, Janet Kircher Warter: “Nexine 0.5μ thick, separating from the sexine about 5μ…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- ‘burn’
estuary, edifice, edification, 18 more
through Ancient Greek αἴθω ‘to kindle’
through Ancient Greek αἰθήρ ‘sky’
Today it means
noun A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ātrium / atrium