stadium

See also: Stadium and stádium

English

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 (stádion, “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 (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
• 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 racecourse, 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.
   • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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. (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.
6. (biology) A life stage of an organism.

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

• Afrikaans: stadion
• Albanian: stadium (sq) m
• Arabic: مَلْعَب (ar) m (malʕab), إِسْتَاد m (ʔistād)

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

• Armenian: ստադիոն (hy) (stadion), մարզադաշտ (hy) (marzadašt)
• Asturian: estadiu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: stadion (az)
• Belarusian: стадыён m (stadyjón)
• Bengali: স্টেডিয়াম (sṭeḍiẏam)
• Bulgarian: стадио́н (bg) m (stadión)
• Burmese: စတေဒီယံ (my) (ca.tediyam)
• Catalan: estadi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體育場／体育场 (zh) (tǐyùchǎng), 体育场 (zh) (tǐyùchǎng)

• Czech: stadión (cs) m
• Danish: stadion (da) n
• Dutch: stadion (nl) n
• Esperanto: stadiono, pilkejo
• Estonian: staadion
• Finnish: stadion (fi)
• French: stade (fr) m
• Georgian: სტადიონი (sṭadioni)
• German: Stadion (de) n
• Greek: στάδιο (el) n (stádio)
• Hebrew: אִצְטַדְיוֹן (he) m (itstadyón)
• Hindi: स्टेडियम m (sṭeḍiyam)
• Hungarian: stadion (hu)
• Icelandic: leikvangur m
• Ido: stadio (io)
• Indonesian: stadion (id), gelanggang (id), gelora (id)
• Irish: staid f, staidiam m
• Italian: stadio (it) m
• Japanese: スタジアム (sutajiamu), 競技場 (きょうぎじょう, kyōgijō)
• Kalmyk: цеңглң (tseñglñ)
• Kazakh: стадион (stadion)
• Khmer: កីឡាដ្ឋាន (kəylaathaan)
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• Korean: 경기장 (ko) (gyeonggijang) (競技場 (ko)), 스타디움 (ko) (seutadium)
• Kyrgyz: стадион (ky) (stadion)
• Lao: ສະໜາມກິລາ (sa nām ki lā), ເດີ່ນກິລາ (lo) (dœ̄n ki lā)
• Latvian: stadions m
• Lithuanian: stadionas m
• Macedonian: стадион m (stadion)
• Malay: stadium
• Maltese: stadju m
• Maori: whare hākinakina
• Mongolian: цэнгэлдэх хүрээлэн (cengeldex xüreelen)
• Navajo: biiʼndaʼaʼnéhé
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stadion n

  Nynorsk: stadion n

• Persian: ورزشگاه (fa) (varzešgâh), استادیوم (fa) (estâdiom)
• Polish: stadion (pl) m
• Portuguese: estádio (pt) m
• Romanian: stadion (ro) n
• Russian: стадио́н (ru) m (stadión), риста́лище (ru) n (ristálišče) (historical)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стадион m

  Roman: stadion (sh) m

• Slovak: štadión m
• Slovene: stadion (sl) m
• Spanish: estadio (es) m
• Swedish: stadion (sv) n or c
• Tajik: майдон (tg) (maydon), стадион (stadion)
• Tetum: estádiun
• Thai: สนามกีฬา (sà-nǎam-gii-laa)
• Turkish: stadyum (tr), stat (tr)
• Turkmen: stadion
• Ukrainian: стадіо́н (uk) m (stadión)
• Urdu: اسٹیڈیم m (isṭeḍiyam)
• Uzbek: stadion (uz)
• Vietnamese: sân vận động (vi)
• Yiddish: סטאַדיע f (stadye), סטאַדיאָן m (stadyon)

race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races

• Dutch: stadion (nl) n
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• Greek: στάδιο (el) n (stádio)

Greek measure of length

• Dutch: stadion (nl) n
• German: Stadion (de) n
• Greek: στάδιο (el) n (stádio)

  Ancient Greek: στάδιον n (stádion)

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• Ido: stadio (io)
• Russian: ста́дий (ru) m (stádij)

telemeter

• Greek: σταδιόμετρο (el) n (stadiómetro)
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graduated rod in surveying

• Greek: σταδία (el) f (stadía)
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References

• “stadium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Czech

Alternative forms

• stádium

Noun

stadium n

1. stage, phase

See also

• fáze f

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

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 (stádion, “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 (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧um

Noun

stadium n (plural stadiums or stadia, diminutive stadiumpje n)

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

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.di.um/, [ˈs̠t̪äd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.di.um/, [ˈst̪äːd̪ium]

Noun

stadium n (genitive stadiī or stadī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stadium	stadia
Genitive	stadiī stadī1	stadiōrum
Dative	stadiō	stadiīs
Accusative	stadium	stadia
Ablative	stadiō	stadiīs
Vocative	stadium	stadia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (measure of distance): stadiī (plurale tantum)

Derived terms

• stadiālis
• stadiātus

Related terms

• stadiodromos

References

• “stadium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stadium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stadium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to run a foot-race: stadium currere (Off. 3. 10. 42)
    
• “stadium”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “stadium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stadium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Malay

Etymology

From English stadium, from Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), from στάδιος (stádios), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stadiom/
• IPA^(key): /stadiʊm/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

stadium

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), via Latin stadium

Noun

stadium n (definite singular stadiet, indefinite plural stadier, definite plural stadia or stadiene)

1. a stage (of a process or development)

See also

• stadion

References

• “stadium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), via Latin stadium

Noun

stadium n (definite singular stadiet, indefinite plural stadium, definite plural stadia)

1. a stage (of a process or development)

See also

• stadion

References

• “stadium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ˈstad.jum//

• Audio

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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

Synonyms

• faza