Which common English word is derived from the ancient Greek word meaning 'a place for viewing'?
"which originated in the ""...late 14c., [meaning an] ""open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles and plays"". The term ""theater"" comes from the Old French word ""theatre"", from the 12th century and ""...directly from Latin theatrum [which meant] 'play-house, theater; stage; spectators in a theater'"", which in turn came from the Greek word ""theatron"", which meant ""theater; the people in the theater; a show, a spectacle,"" [or] literally ""place for viewing."" The use of the word ""theatre"" to mean a ""building where plays are shown"" dates from the 1570s in the English language. The earliest precursors to movies"
"as an ancestor and platform to early cinema. The word “panorama” is derived from the Greek words “to see” and “all.” Robert Barker, an Irish-born scene painter, coined the term with his first panorama of Edinburgh, displayed in a specially built rotunda in Leicester Square in 1791. This attraction was extremely popular amongst the middle and lower classes for the way it was able to offer the illusion of transport for the viewer to a completely different location that they had most likely never seen. Panoramic paintings and the various offshoots had become so in demand across Europe and America"
"Greek θέατρον (théatron, ""a place for viewing""), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, ""to see"", ""to watch"", ""to observe""). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavis defines theatricality, theatrical language, stage writing and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature and the arts in general. Modern theatre includes performances of plays and musical theatre. The art forms of ballet and opera are also theatre"
"Panorama A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν ""all"" + ὅραμα ""sight"") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images or a three-dimensional model. The word was originally coined in the 18th century by the English (Irish descent) painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London. The motion-picture term ""panning"" is derived from ""panorama"". A panoramic view is also purposed for multi-media, cross-scale applications to an outline overview (from a distance) along and across repositories. This so-called ""cognitive panorama"" is a panoramic view over, and a combination"
"Amphitheatre An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον (""amphitheatron""), from ἀμφί (""amphi""), meaning ""on both sides"" or ""around"" and θέατρον (""théātron""), meaning ""place for viewing"". Ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. In contrast both ancient Greek and ancient Roman theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area. In modern usage, an ""amphitheatre"" may consist of theatre-style stages with spectator"
"Parterre (theater audience) The word ""parterre"" comes from the French ""par"" and ""terre"" and literally translated means “on the ground.” Originally, the term was used in the 16th century to refer to a formal ornamental garden, but by the mid-17th century, it was increasingly used to refer both to the ground level of a theatre where spectators stood to watch performances and to the group of spectators who occupied that space. Although the word parterre originated in France, historians use the term interchangeably with its English equivalent, “the pit,” to designate the same part of the audience in England, present-day"
"Opsis Opsis () is the Greek word for spectacle in the theatre and performance. Its first use has been traced back to Aristotle's ""Poetics."" It is now taken up by theatre critics, historians, and theorists to describe the mise en scène of a performance or theatrical event. Opsis comes from the ancient Greek for ""appearance, sight, view."" The English word optic is derived from this word. Aristotle's use of the term opsis, as Marvin Carlson points out, is the ""final element of tragedy,"" but the term ""receive[d] no further consideration"". Aristotle discusses opsis in book 6 of the poetics, but"
"(ὁρᾶν) ""to see"". It expressed the state of being a spectator. Both Greek ""θεωρία"" and Latin ""contemplatio"" primarily meant looking at things, whether with the eyes or with the mind. Commenting on Aristotle's view of the lack of practical usefulness of the contemplation of ""theoria"", Orthodox theologian Fr. Andrew Louth said: According to William Johnston, until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the term ""contemplatio"", c.q. ""theoria"". According to Johnston, ""[b]oth contemplation and mysticism speak of the eye of love which is looking at, gazing at, aware of divine realities."" Several"
"Public viewing area A public viewing area is a space set aside for members of the public to safely view sites of interest, such as airports, railroads, construction sites or other facilities. Sometimes they are known as visitor centers or interpretive sites. In locations that have inherent dangers and would not normally be accessible to the public, viewing areas provide a way to satiate the public curiosity without exposing inordinate risk. Many sites contain descriptive signs, viewing pavilions, picnic facilities, toilets, radio receivers and brochures. Many lock and dam facilities along the various rivers in the US have public viewing"
"of the object being watched quickly moving out of sight. ""Scanning"" suggests quickly looking over an area ""to get a general impression"", accomplished ""by rapidly noting one point after another"". ""Glance"" appeared with its current meaning prior to 1450, from Old French ""glacer"" or ""glacier"", a reference to the quick movement of slipping on ice. ""Glimpse"" appeared as a noun with its current meaning in 1580, from Middle English ""glimsen"", and as a verb in 1779, although it was originally associated with seeing bright or shiny things. Playwright Eugene O'Neill was fond of using ""glance"" as a stage direction. ""Peeking"""
"Auditorium An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theatres, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space. The term is taken from Latin (from ""audītōrium"", from ""audītōrius"" (“‘pertaining to hearing’”)); the concept is taken from the Greek auditorium, which had a series of semi-circular seating shelves in the theatre, divided by broad 'belts', called ""diazomata"", with"
"families or other distinguished personalities. In other countries, sports venues have luxury boxes, where access is open to anyone who can afford tickets. Auditorium An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theatres, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space. The term is taken from Latin (from ""audītōrium"", from ""audītōrius"" (“‘pertaining to hearing’”)); the concept is"
"Spectacle In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. Derived in Middle English from c. 1340 as ""specially prepared or arranged display"" it was borrowed from Old French ""spectacle"", itself a reflection of the Latin ""spectaculum"" ""a show"" from ""spectare"" ""to view, watch"" frequentative form of ""specere"" ""to look at."" The word ""spectacle"" has also been a term of art in theater dating from the 17th century in English drama. Court masques and masques of the nobility were most popular in the Jacobean and Caroline era. Such masques, as their name implies, relied"
"Hagioscope A hagioscope (from Gr. ""άγιος"", holy, and ""σκοπεῖν"", to see) or squint is an architectural term denoting a small splayed opening or tunnel at seated eye-level, through an internal masonry dividing wall of a church in an oblique direction (south-east or north-east), to enable one or more worshippers in side-chapels, private manorial chapels, chantry chapels at the east ends of the aisles, or other parts of the church from which the high altar in the chancel was not visible, to view the elevation of the host, in Roman Catholic and pre-Reformation usage, the most sacred part of the mass"
"was celebrated throughout Greece, less for its own magnificence, than for the paintings with which it was adorned by Polygnotus. Lesche Lesche (Gr. ) is an Ionic Greek word, signifying ""council"" or ""conversation"", and a ""place for council or conversation"". There is frequent mention of places of public resort, in the Greek cities, by the name of ""leschai"" (, the Greek plural of ""lesche""), some set apart for the purpose, and others so called because they were so used by loungers; to the latter class belong the agora and its porticoes, the gymnasia, and the shops of various tradesmen, especially"
"the Greek word 'epiphany' that means the manifestation of a deity or a sudden realisation. The term epiphany as a literary device has become popular among English speakers. Epiphany as a word is derived from the ancient Greek word ""epiphaneia"" ""manifestation, striking appearance, festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god at some particular place."" It also has religious connotations in the early fourteenth century meaning ""festival of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles"" and in the New Testament meaning an ""advent manifestation of Christ."" Christians denoted from epiphany the meaning of a ""visible manifestation of a"
"ever-changing view being presented. Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor David Brewster, ""kaleidoscope"" is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός (""kalos""), ""beautiful, beauty"", εἶδος (""eidos""), ""that which is seen: form, shape"" and σκοπέω (""skopeō""), ""to look to, to examine"", hence ""observation of beautiful forms."" A kaleidoscope operates on the principle of multiple reflection, where two or more reflectors are placed at an angle to one another. When the eye is placed at one end of the reflectors, the original view from the aperture on the other side is multiplied into a symmetrical mosaic pattern. A two-mirror kaleidoscope yields a circular"
"to use the British spelling in their own names, a practice supported by the National Association of Theatre Owners, while apart from North America most English-speaking countries use the term cinema , alternatively spelled and pronounced kinema . The latter terms, as well as their derivative adjectives ""cinematic"" and ""kinematic"", ultimately derive from Greek κινῆμα, κινήματος (kinema, kinematos)—""movement"", ""motion"". In the countries where those terms are used, the word ""theatre"" is usually reserved for live performance venues. Colloquial expressions, mostly applied to motion pictures and motion picture theaters collectively, include ""the silver screen"" (formerly sometimes ""sheet"") and ""the big screen"""
"audience"". The gods (theatrical) The gods (UK English), or sometimes paradise, is a theatrical term, referring to the highest areas of a theatre such as the upper balconies. These are generally the cheapest seats. One reason for naming the cheapest seats ""the gods"" is because the theatres have beautifully painted ceilings, often mythological themes, so the cheap seats are up near the gods. Another is that those seated in ""the gods"" look down upon both the performers and the occupants of more expensive seats, like the Olympian Gods looking down from Mount Olympus upon the lives of mortal people. There"
"""Hollywood Panorama."" ""Places. A Forum of Environmental Design""Vol. 4, December 2006. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/89w497p3 Velaslavasay Panorama History of the Panorama in the United States The word “panorama” combines the Greek roots “pan,” meaning “all”, and “horama,” meaning “view.” The panorama was a popular entertainment format throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and therefore can be understood as a predecessor to 20th century cinema and emerging virtual reality technologies today. Velas reflects that by situating the panorama as “pre-cinematic” creates a hierarchy between “BC” (before cinema” and “AD” (after digital), when in reality it is representative of changing evolution of popular entertainment formats"
"earlier misuse in F Blomefield's book ""Norfolk"", published in 1744. Parvise A parvis or parvise is the open space in front of and around a cathedral or church, especially when surrounded by either colonnades or porticoes, as at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The term is derived ""via"" Old French from the Latin ""paradisus"" meaning ""paradise"". This in turn came ""via"" Ancient Greek from the Indo-European Aryan languages of ancient Iran, where it meant a walled enclosure or garden precinct with heavenly flowers planted by the Clercs (Clerics). In London in the Middle Ages the Serjeants-at-law practised at the parvis"
"Odeon (building) Odeon is the name for several ancient Greek and Roman buildings built for music: singing exercises, musical shows, poetry competitions, and the like. The word comes from the Ancient Greek ᾨδεῖον, ""Ōideion"", literally ""singing place"", or ""building for musical competitions""; from the verb ἀείδω, ""aeidō"", ""I sing"", which is also the root of ᾠδή, ""ōidē"", ""ode"", and of ἀοιδός, ""aoidos"", ""singer"". In a general way the construction of an odeon was similar to that of an ancient Greek theatre, but it was only a quarter of the size and was provided with a roof for acoustic purposes, a"
"Parvise A parvis or parvise is the open space in front of and around a cathedral or church, especially when surrounded by either colonnades or porticoes, as at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The term is derived ""via"" Old French from the Latin ""paradisus"" meaning ""paradise"". This in turn came ""via"" Ancient Greek from the Indo-European Aryan languages of ancient Iran, where it meant a walled enclosure or garden precinct with heavenly flowers planted by the Clercs (Clerics). In London in the Middle Ages the Serjeants-at-law practised at the parvis of St Paul's Cathedral, where clients could seek their counsel."
"position - first recorded in the Domesday book of 1086 as 'Contone', from Old English ""cumb"" - a narrow valley or deep hollow ('cumb' is likely a continuation in use or a loan word from Brythonic ""cwm"" (Welsh) or ""cum"" (Cornish), meaning 'valley'), and Old English ""tūn"" - a farmstead or fenced place. Compton Lock on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal was the starting point in 1766 for the construction of the canal under James Brindley. In the late 19th-early 20th century, Compton was home of a distinguished local artist Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856–1925). It was during this time"
"Doxa Doxa (ancient Greek δόξα; from verb δοκεῖν ""dokein"", ""to appear"", ""to seem"", ""to think"" and ""to accept"") is a Greek word meaning common belief or popular opinion. Used by the Greek rhetoricians as a tool for the formation of argument by using common opinions, the ""doxa"" was often manipulated by sophists to persuade the people, leading to Plato's condemnation of Athenian democracy. The word ""doxa"" picked up a new meaning between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC when the Septuagint translated the Hebrew word for ""glory"" (כבוד, ""kavod"") as ""doxa"". This translation of the Hebrew Scriptures was used by"
"Oculus An oculus (plural oculi, from Latin """", 'eye') is a circular opening in the center of a dome or in a wall. Originating in antiquity, it is a feature of Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture. It is also known as an ""œil de boeuf"" from the French, or simply a ""bull's-eye"". The oculus was used by the Ancient Romans, one of the finest examples being that in the dome of the Pantheon. Open to the weather, it allows rain to enter and fall to the floor, where it is carried away through drains. Though the opening looks small, it actually"
"Greece. Contemporary iterations have taken various forms, including those found in certain British and American universities (some being part of the Classical education movement) and at the independent Oundle School in the United Kingdom. Etymologically, the Latin word trivium means ""the place where three roads meet"" (tri + via); hence, the subjects of the trivium are the foundation for the quadrivium, the upper division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised arithmetic (number), geometry (number in space), music (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time). Educationally, the trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the"
"(, ""Skoupoi"") probably derives from the Greek , i.e. ""episcopus"" (lit. ""watcher, observer""; cf. the modern English adjective episcopal), referring to its position on a high place, from which the whole place could be observed. In the most ancient times, it was located on Zaychev Rid, now a hill on the West of present-day Skopje. Being located on a hill, it could have been used as a place from which the whole of the area was observed. According to some opinions, in the beginning it was merely a (military) observation post. However, the Slavic forms, which show a common plural"
"modern Greek word ""symposion"" comes from ""sympinein"", which means ""to drink together"". In ancient Greece this word conveyed the idea of a party with music and conversation. The principal item of furniture for a symposium is the ""kline"", a form of daybed. The Greeks changed from the normal practice of sitting at a table to the practice of reclining on couches as early as the 8th century BC. The Romans also used a daybed for reclining in the daytime and to sleep on at night. Developed from the Greek prototype, the Roman daybed was designed with legs carved in wood"
"Basilica The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek βασιλική στοά, Royal ""Stoa"", the tribunal chamber of a king), has three distinct applications in modern English. Originally, the word was used to describe an ancient Roman public building, where courts were held, as well as serving other official and public functions. It usually had the door at one end and a slightly raised platform and an apse at the other, where the magistrate or other officials were seated. The basilica was centrally located in every Roman town, usually adjacent to the main forum. Subsequently, the basilica was not built near a"
"Stereopsis Stereopsis (from the Greek στερεο- ""stereo-"" meaning ""solid"", and ὄψις ""opsis"", ""appearance, sight"") is a term that is most often used to refer to the perception of depth and 3-dimensional structure obtained on the basis of visual information deriving from two eyes by individuals with normally developed binocular vision. Because the eyes of humans, and many animals, are located at different lateral positions on the head, binocular vision results in two slightly different images projected to the retinas of the eyes. The differences are mainly in the relative horizontal position of objects in the two images. These positional differences"
"borrowed both by Old English and by French from Latin ""platea"", itself borrowed from Greek πλατεία (ὁδός) 'broad (street)'; the Italian ""piazza"" and Spanish ""plaza"" have the same origin, and have been borrowed into English in parallel. The word ""olive"" comes through the Romance from the Latin word ""olīva"", which in turn comes from the Greek (""elaíwā""). A later Greek word, (""boútȳron"") becomes Latin ""butyrum"" and eventually English 'butter'. A large group of early borrowings, again transmitted first through Latin, then through various vernaculars, comes from Christian vocabulary: ""chair"" « καθέδρα (""cf."" 'cathedra'), ""bishop"" « ἐπίσκοπος (""epískopos"" 'overseer'), ""priest"" «"
"Agora The agora (; ""agorá"") was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. The literal meaning of the word is ""gathering place"" or ""assembly"". The agora was the center of the athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city. The Ancient Agora of Athens was the best-known example. Early in Greek history (18th century–8th century BC), free-born citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later, the Agora also served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods amid colonnades. This attracted"