stadial

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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stadial (comparative more stadial, superlative most stadial)

  1. (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
  2. (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 188:
      He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.

Derived terms

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Noun

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stadial (plural stadials)

  1. (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German stadial or Latin stadialis.

Adjective

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stadial m or n (feminine singular stadială, masculine plural stadiali, feminine and neuter plural stadiale)

  1. done in stages

Declension

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Noun

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stadial n (plural stadiali)

  1. stage

Declension

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