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• auditorium — noun (plural riums or auditoria) Etymology: Latin, literally, lecture room Date: 1700 1. a room, hall, or building used for public gatherings 2. the part of a public building where an audience sits …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• crematorium — noun (plural riums or crematoria) Date: 1880 crematory …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• emporium — noun (plural riums; also emporia) Etymology: Latin, from Greek emporion, from emporos traveler, trader, from em 2en + poros passage, journey more at fare Date: 1586 1. a. a place of trade; especially a commercial center b. a retail …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• equilibrium — noun (plural riums or equilibria) Etymology: Latin aequilibrium, from aequilibris being in equilibrium, from aequi + libra weight, balance Date: 1608 1. a. a state of intellectual or emotional balance ; poise < trying to recover his equilibrium …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• moratorium — noun (plural riums or moratoria) Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, neuter of moratorius dilatory, from Latin morari to delay, from mora delay Date: 1875 1. a. a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sanatorium — noun (plural riums or sanatoria) Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, neuter of sanatorius curative, from sanare Date: 1839 1. an establishment that provides therapy combined with a regimen (as of diet and exercise) for treatment or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sanitorium — noun (plural riums or sanitoria) Etymology: by alteration (influenced by sanitarium) Date: 1917 sanatorium …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sensorium — noun (plural riums or sensoria) Etymology: Late Latin, sense organ, from Latin sentire Date: 1647 the parts of the brain or the mind concerned with the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli; broadly the entire sensory apparatus …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sensorium — n.; pl. riums, ria [L. sensus, sense] The sensory apparatus, comprising sense organs and their nerve centers …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• moratorium — mor·a·to·ri·um /ˌmȯr ə tȯr ē əm/ n pl riums or ria [New Latin, from Late Latin, neuter of moratorius dilatory, from morari to delay, from mora delay] 1 a: an authorized period of delay in the performance of an obligation (as the paying of a… …   Law dictionary

• bothrium — One of the slitlike sucking grooves found on the scolex of pseudophyllidean tapeworms, such as the broad fish tapeworm of man, Diphyllobothrium latum. [G. bothros, pit or trench] * * * both·ri·um bäth rē əm n, pl ria rē ə or riums a slit, groove …   Medical dictionary