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English

Alternative forms

• foot-ball, foot ball (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English footbal, foteball, equivalent to foot +? ball, which may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet. The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?tb?l/
  • IPA^(key): [?f??tb??], [?f??t?b??]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?tb??l/
  • IPA^(key): [?f??t?b??l], [?f??t?b??l], [?f??b??l]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?f?tb?l/
  • IPA^(key): [f???t?b??]

Noun

football (countable and uncountable, plural footballs)

1. (general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

2. (Britain, uncountable) Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:football

3. (US, uncountable) American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:football

4. (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:football

5. (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:football

6. (Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
7. (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:football

8. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, uncountable) rugby union.
9. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:football

10. (uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
11. (figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

12. (US military slang, countable) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.

    Synonyms: nuclear football, atomic football, black box, black bag

    Coordinate term: Cheget

    • 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press (?ISBN), page 126:

      The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade. He is responsible for the football (or “black box” or “black bag”), a briefcase containing the codes and targeting information the president would require to order or authorize a nuclear attack.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• foosball

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (futtob?ru)
• ? Korean: ?? (putbol)
• ? Maltese: futbol
• ? Russian: ??????? (futból) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Spanish: fútbol
• ? Portuguese: futebol
• ? Thai: ?????? (fút-b?n)

Translations

Verb

football (third-person singular simple present footballs, present participle footballing, simple past and past participle footballed)

1. (intransitive, rare) To play football.
   • 1969, Alec Hugh Chisholm, The Joy of the Earth (page 358)

     It was an announcement of the outbreak of what is now termed World War I. Some of us lads were footballing when we heard the news. It left us bewildered.

   • 2019, David Randall, Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

     You walked up our road, passed the elms that bordered our park until Dutch disease killed them in the early 1970s, diagonally crossed its field where we footballed, turned right at the drinking fountain and cattle trough […]

See also

• Category:en:Football (soccer) for a list of terms used in football/soccer.

Further reading

• football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• football (word) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• American football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nuclear football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “football”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

French

Etymology

A borrowing from English football.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fut.bol/, /fut.bal/

Noun

football m (plural footballs)

1. association football, soccer
2. (Canada) Canadian football
3. (Louisiana) American football

Synonyms

• (soccer): foot (colloquial)
• (soccer): soccer (Quebec)
• (soccer): pelote au pied (Louisiana)
• (American football): football américain
• (Canadian football): football canadien

Further reading

• “football” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Etymology

From English.

Noun

football (uncountable)

1. football (soccer)

Middle English

Noun

football

1. Alternative form of foteball

Portuguese

Noun

football m (uncountable)

1. Dated spelling of futebol.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??l??/
• Rhymes: -??l??

Etymology 1

From Balti ????? (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan ????? (po lo), ?????? (pho long), ?????? (spo lo, “ball”).

Noun

polo (usually uncountable, plural polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. The ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

Noun

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo (plural polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

Further reading

• polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• polo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Loop, OOPL, Pool, loop, pool

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

Contraction

polo n (masculine pol, feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Etymology 1

From English polo shirt.

Noun

polo

1. a polo shirt

Etymology 2

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo

1. a ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo

1. a dress shirt

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?polo]

Etymology 1

Adverb

polo

1. half

Etymology 2

Noun

polo n

1. polo (a ball game played on horseback)

   Synonym: pólo

Further reading

• polo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• polo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

polo

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

   Synonyms: poloskjorte, polotrøje

Further reading

• “polo” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -olo

Noun

polo (accusative singular polon, plural poloj, accusative plural polojn)

1. a Pole (person from Poland)

Hypernyms

• e?ropano (“a European”)

Related terms

• pola (“Polish”)
• pole (“in Polish; like a Pole”)
• Polio, Pollando (“Poland”)

Finnish

(index po)

Etymology

Related to and likely derived from polkea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polo/, [?po?lo?]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: po?lo

Noun

polo

1. poor (one to be pitied)

   poikapolo

   poor boy

Declension

Synonyms

• poloinen

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, ?ISBN

French

Pronunciation

Noun

polo m

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

Further reading

• “polo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology 1

Contraction of preposition por (“through, by, for”) + alternative form of the masculine singular definite article lo (“the”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?l?]

Contraction

polo (feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural polas)

1. through the; by the; for the

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. chick (young bird, especially a chicken)
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95:

     Iten o par dos polos et polas, seis blanquas et dous coroados.

     Item, the pair of chickens and chicks, six white coins and a crown

   Synonyms: pito, pitiño

Related terms

• pola

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt, polo

References

• “polo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “polo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “polo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “polo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English pole, French pôle, German Pol, Italian polo, Russian ?????? (póljus), Spanish polo, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po.lo/

Noun

polo (plural poli)

1. pole (point where an axis meets the surface of a rotating body)

Derived terms

• polala
• polara

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.lo/
• Rhymes: -?lo

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (countable) pole (geographic, electrical or magnetic)

Related terms

• polare

See also

• pollo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (uncountable) polo (sport)

Related terms

• polistico

References

Latin

Noun

pol?

1. dative singular of polus
2. ablative singular of polus

References

• polo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Noun

polo m (invariable)

1. polo

Related terms

• ?denspolo

Lower Sorbian

Noun

polo n (diminutive polack)

1. Superseded spelling of pólo.

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vannpolo

References

• “polo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “polo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vasspolo

References

• “polo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus (“pole”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole (geographic, magnetic)
2. (complex analysis) pole
3. (figuratively) extreme opposite

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti ????? (pulu, “ball”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt, polo

Etymology 3

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Doublet of polho, which came from Spanish.

Alternative forms

• pôlo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. eyas

Related terms

• poleiro

Etymology 4

From Old Portuguese polo, from por + lo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo
• Homophone: pulo

Contraction

polo m (plural polos, feminine pola, feminine plural polas)

1. (obsolete) Contraction of por (“by; through; for”) + o (“the”)

   Synonym: pelo

Ramoaaina

Noun

polo

1. liquid

Further reading

• Robyn Davies and Lisbeth Fritzell, Duke of York Grammar Essentials (Ramoaaina) (October 1992)

Romanian

Etymology

From French polo.

Noun

polo n (uncountable)

1. polo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polo/, [?po.lo]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Derived terms

Related terms

• polar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (uncountable)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

Derived terms

• polo acuático
• waterpolo

Etymology 3

Originally a trademark.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (chiefly Spain) popsicle, ice lolly

   Synonym: paleta

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

polo

1. (Obsolete spelling of pulo) First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of polir.

Further reading

• “polo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

See main entry.

Noun

polo

1. Obsolete form of pulo.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo
• IPA^(key): /?polo/

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)
2. polo shirt
   • 1981, Clodualdo Del Mundo, Writing for Film

     Maraming reklamo si Arni tungkol sa initiation; sisisihin pa nito si Sid dahil ito ang pumilit sa kanyang sumali sa frat. Magsusuot ng polo si Arni. Halos hindi niya maigalaw ang kanyang braso.

     Arni have a lot of complaints about the initiation; he even blamed Sid for forcing him to join the frat. Arni would wear a polo shirt. He could almost not move his arms.

Derived terms

• polo barong

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (pólo).

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)

Inflection

Derived terms

• vezipolo

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika