diorama

See also: Diorama, and dioramą

English

One of the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in the City of New York

Etymology

Borrowed from French diorama, from Ancient Greek δια- (dia-, “through, across, by, over”) + ὅραμα (hórama, “view”). The French term was coined by Louis Daguerre (1822).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmə

Noun

diorama (plural dioramas)

1. A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.

Derived terms

• dioramic

Translations

a three-dimensional display of a scenery

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: dioraama
• French: diorama (fr) m
• Galician: diorama (gl) m
• German: Diorama (de) n
• Hungarian: dioráma (hu)
• Italian: diorama (it)
• Persian: شهر فرنگ (fa) (šahr-e farang)
• Polish: diorama (pl) f
• Portuguese: diorama m
• Romanian: dioramă (ro) f
• Russian: диора́ма (ru) f (dioráma)
• Spanish: diorama m
• Swedish: diorama (sv) n

Anagrams

• amaroid

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diorama, coined by Louis Daguerre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.oːˈraː.maː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: di‧o‧ra‧ma
• Rhymes: -aːmaː

Noun

diorama n (plural diorama's)

1. a diorama (three-dimensional display of a setting or scenery) [from 1820s]
   • 1830, “Tafereel van de schouwburgen te Londen”, in Vaderlandsche letteroefeningen, page 330:

     De poëzij, deze wettige koningin van de tooneelkunst, heeft er thans slechts den tweeden rang; men doet er heerschen het schilderwerk, de beweging der schermen, zonder te denken, dat deze soort van begoocheling hier nooit eene volkomene uitwerking zal hebben, terwijl de diorama's en panorama's altijd de gelukkigste pogingen van den werktuigkunstenaar en tooneelschilder overtreffen.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• panorama

See also

• kijkkast

French

Etymology

Coined by Louis Daguerre (1822) from Ancient Greek δια- (dia-, “through, across, by, over”) + ὅραμα (hórama, “view”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djɔ.ʁa.ma/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

diorama m (plural dioramas)

1. diorama

Further reading

• “diorama”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

diorama m (plural diorami)

1. (art) diorama

Anagrams

• Amadori, amadori, ardiamo, armadio, radiamo

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French diorama, from Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) + ὅραμα (hórama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djɔˈra.ma/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: dio‧ra‧ma

Noun

diorama f

1. (art) diorama (three-dimensional display of a scenery)

Declension

Declension of diorama

	singular	plural
nominative	diorama	dioramy
genitive	dioramy	dioram
dative	dioramie	dioramom
accusative	dioramę	dioramy
instrumental	dioramą	dioramami
locative	dioramie	dioramach
vocative	dioramo	dioramy

Derived terms

adjectives

• dioramiczny
• dioramowy

 

Further reading

• diorama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.oˈɾɐ̃.mɐ/ [d͡ʒɪ.oˈɾɐ̃.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjoˈɾɐ̃.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.oˈɾɐ̃.mɐ/ [d͡ʒɪ.oˈɾɐ̃.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjoˈɾɐ̃.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.oˈɾɐ.ma/ [d͡ʒɪ.oˈɾɐ.ma], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjoˈɾɐ.ma/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /djuˈɾɐ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /djuˈɾɐ.mɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /djuˈɾa.mɐ/

• Hyphenation: di‧o‧ra‧ma

Noun

diorama m (plural dioramas)

1. (art) diorama (a three-dimensional display of a scenery)

Spanish

Noun

diorama m (plural dioramas)

1. diorama

Further reading

• “diorama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28