stadium

See also Stadium, and stádium

English

Wikipedia

A stadium (venue for sporting events)

Etymology

From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stadion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stadios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *sta-, whence also stand).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsteɪdiəm/, X-SAMPA: /"steIdi@m/
• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧um

• Audio (US)

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Noun

stadium (plural stadiums or stadia)

1. A venue where sporting events are held.
2. An ancient Greek race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
3. (now historical) A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements, equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet, 9 inches.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:

     Dionysiodorus [...] sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums [...].

4. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
5. In surveying, a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.

Usage notes

• The alternative plural stadia is occasionally used, chiefly in high-register contexts.

Synonyms

• (venue where sporting events are held): arena
• (Greek unit of length): Olympic stadium
• (graduated rod in surveying): stadia, stadia rod

Derived terms

• stadia rod
• stadia wire

Translations

venue where sporting events are held

• Arabic: ملعب (ar) (málʿab) m

  Egyptian Arabic: استاد (estād) m, ستاد (stād)

• Armenian: ստադիոն (hy) (stadion), մարզադաշտ (hy) (marzadašt)
• Asturian: estadiu (ast) m
• Belarusian: стадыён (be) (stadyjón) m
• Bulgarian: стадион (bg) (stadión) m
• Catalan: estadi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體育場 (cmn), 体育场 (cmn) (tǐyùchǎng)

• Czech: stadión (cs) m
• Dutch: stadion (nl) n
• Esperanto: stadiono (eo), pilkejo (eo)
• Finnish: stadion (fi)
• French: stade (fr) m
• Georgian: სტადიონი (ka) (stadioni)
• German: Stadion (de) n
• Greek: στάδιο (el) (stádio) n
• Hebrew: אצטדיון (he) (itstadyón) m
• Icelandic: leikvangur (is) m
• Indonesian: stadion (id)

• Italian: stadio (it) m
• Japanese: スタジアム (ja) (sutajiamu), 競技場 (ja) (きょうぎじょう, kyōgijō)
• Korean: 경기장 (ko) (gyeong-gijang) (競技場 (ko))
• Malay: stadium (ms)
• Maltese: stadju (mt) m
• Navajo: biiʼndaʼaʼnéhé
• Persian: ورزشگاه (fa) (varzešgâh)
• Polish: stadion (pl) m
• Portuguese: estádio (pt) m
• Romanian: stadion (ro) n
• Russian: стадион (ru) (stadión) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стадион (sh) m

  Roman: stadion (sh) m

• Spanish: estadio (es) m
• Swedish: stadion (sv)
• Tetum: estádiun
• Turkish: stadyum (tr), stat (tr)
• Ukrainian: стадіон (uk) (stadión) m
• Vietnamese: sân vận động (vi)

race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races

• Dutch: stadion (nl) n

• Greek: στάδιο (el) (stádio) n

Greek measure of length

• Dutch: stadion (nl) n
• German: Stadion (de) n

• Greek: στάδιο (el) (stádio) n

telemeter

• Greek: σταδιόμετρο (el) (stadiómetro) n

graduated rod in surveying

• Greek: σταδία (el) (stadía) f

References

• stadium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Czech

Alternative forms

• stádium

Noun

stadium n

1. stage, phase

See also

• fáze f

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Dutch

Noun

stadium n (plural stadiums or stadia, diminutive stadiumpje)

1. A stadium.
2. A stage; a phase.

Usage notes

• Stadium is a learned term used in certain proper nouns such as Yankee Stadium. The standard Dutch term is stadion.

Related terms

• stadion

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Latin

Noun

stadium (genitive stadiī); n, second declension

1. stade (distance of 125 paces)
2. racecourse (athletics)

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	stadium	stadia
genitive	stadiī	stadiōrum
dative	stadiō	stadiīs
accusative	stadium	stadia
ablative	stadiō	stadiīs
vocative	stadium	stadia

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Malay

Etymology

From English stadium, from Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stadion), from στάδιος (stadios), from Proto-Indo-European *sta-.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA: /stadiom/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA: /stadiʊm/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

stadium

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈstadjum/

Noun

stadium n (plural stadia)

1. stage, phase

Declension

    declension of stadium

	singular	plural
nominative	stadium	stadia
genitive	stadium	stadiów
dative	stadium	stadiom
accusative	stadium	stadia
instrumental	stadium	stadiami
locative	stadium	stadiach
vocative	stadium	stadia