hippodrome

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hippodrome, from Latin hippodromos, from Ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”); synchronically, hippo- +‎ -drome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpəˌdɹəʊm/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

hippodrome (plural hippodromes)

1. A horse racing course.
2. (US, slang, sports) A fraudulent sporting contest with a predetermined winner.
3. (archaic) A circus with equestrian performances.

Translations

horse racing course

• Armenian: ասպարեզ (hy) (asparez), ձիարշավարան (hy) (jiaršavaran)
• Bulgarian: хиподру́м m (hipodrúm)
• Catalan: hipòdrom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賽馬場／赛马场 (zh) (sàimǎchǎng), 赛马场 (zh) (sàimǎchǎng), 競技場／竞技场 (zh) (jìngjìchǎng), 竞技场 (zh) (jìngjìchǎng)

• Dutch: renbaan (nl) m
• Finnish: hippodromi (fi); ravirata (fi), laukkarata
• French: hippodrome (fr) m
• German: Hippodrom (de) n, Pferderennbahn f
• Greek: ιπποδρόμιο (el) n (ippodrómio)

  Ancient Greek: ἱππόδρομος m (hippódromos)

• Japanese: 競馬場 (けいばじょう, keibajō)
• Korean: 경마장 (ko) (gyeongmajang) (競馬場 (ko))
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• Persian: اسپریس (fa) (aspris)
• Polish: hipodrom (pl) m
• Portuguese: hipódromo (pt) m
• Russian: ипподро́м (ru) m (ippodróm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хиподром m

  Roman: hipodrom (sh) m

• Spanish: hipódromo (es) m, almidana
• Swedish: galoppbana c
• Tagalog: ipodromo
• Ukrainian: іподро́м m (ipodróm)
• Vietnamese: trường đua ngựa

Verb

hippodrome (third-person singular simple present hippodromes, present participle hippodroming, simple past and past participle hippodromed)

1. (US, slang, sports, especially baseball) To stage a sporting contest to suit gamblers.

See also

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• hippo-
• -drome

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French

Etymology

From Latin hippodromos, from Ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”); synchronically, hippo- +‎ -drome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.dʁɔm/, /i.pɔ.dʁom/

Noun

hippodrome m (plural hippodromes)

1. a hippodrome, racecourse, a circuit for equestrian sport

See also

• hippo-
• -drome

Further reading

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

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) hippodrome

1. vocative singular of hippodromos