"theatre" in seven languages

Meaningtheatre

Spanish

teatro

/teˈatɾo/

masc.learned

French

théâtre

/teatʁ/

masc.learned

Italian

teatro

/teˈatro/

masc.learned

Portuguese

teatro

/tʃiˈatɾu/

masc.learned

Romanian

teatru

/teˈatru/

neut.borrowed · Italian teatro and French théâtre

plural: teatre

Catalan

teatre

/təˈatɾə/

masc.learned

English

theatre

/ˈθiətɚ/

from Latin/French · Old French theatre

English → ItaliantheatreteatroCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

THEĀTRUM‘theatre (from Greek théatron 'place for viewing')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

A learned word that never changed much. French keeps the Greek th in spelling and adds a circumflex that, unusually, marks no lost s.

English relatives: theatre, theatrical