Dynamo

See also: dynamo

English

Alternative forms

• Dinamo

Etymology

From Russian Динамо (Dinamo) and cognates in other languages, including Serbo-Croatian Dinamo and German Dynamo.

Proper noun

Dynamo

1. Dynamo Sports Club, a national sporting association in the Soviet Union, and other similiar organisations in other socialist countries and their successor states.
2. Any of various football clubs and other sports teams linked to a Dynamo association, including Dynamo Berlin, Dynamo Dresden, Dynamo Kyiv and Dinamo Zagreb in soccer and HC Dynamo Moscow in ice hockey.
   • 1990, Lawrence Martin, The Red Machine: The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game:

     The only Dynamo player to win the most valuable player award in Soviet hockey history was Maltsev.

   • 2018 April 19, Paul Dietschy, Origins and Birth of the Europe of football, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Following elimination at the hands of Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the same tournament two years later, Hänel lamented that the 'nervousness' of the Dynamo team allowed the English club to progress comfortably to the next round.

   • 2023 November 30, Thomas M. Wilson, Europe: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [2 volumes], Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

     He was thrice elected head coach during Soviet times and thrice became Dynamo's head coach. He dedicated many years to the club. Following his death, Lobanovskyi was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine, the nation's highest honor.

German

Etymology

After English dynamo, from dynamo-electric machine, itself from German dynamoelektrische Maschine, coined by Werner von Siemens, based on Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyˈnaːmo/, /ˈdyːnamo/, /ˈdʏnamo/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Dy‧na‧mo

Noun

Dynamo m (strong, genitive Dynamos, plural Dynamos)

1. dynamo

Declension

Declension of Dynamo [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Dynamo	die	Dynamos
genitive	eines	des	Dynamos	der	Dynamos
dative	einem	dem	Dynamo	den	Dynamos
accusative	einen	den	Dynamo	die	Dynamos

Proper noun

Dynamo n or m (proper noun, strong, genitive Dynamos)

1. Part of, and short form for, the names of several sports clubs in former East Germany, especially Dynamo Dresden and Berliner FC Dynamo.

Further reading

• “Dynamo” in Duden online
• “Dynamo”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)