different between rodeo vs stadium

English

Etymology

From the Spanish verb rodear (“to surround”), and specifically rodeo, noun derived from the verb, which refers to a cattle roundup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?.di.o?/, although in the road name 'Rodeo Drive', the pronunciation is IPA^(key): /?o?.?de?.o?/

Noun

rodeo (plural rodeos)

1. A gathering of cattle to be branded.
2. (sports) A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.
3. An entertainment event associated with the sport.

Derived terms

• been to the rodeo

Translations

Verb

rodeo (third-person singular simple present rodeos, present participle rodeoing, simple past and past participle rodeoed)

1. To perform in a rodeo show.

Anagrams

• doore

Czech

Noun

rodeo n

1. rodeo

Finnish

Etymology

English rodeo

Noun

rodeo

1. rodeo

Declension

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish rodeo.

Noun

rodeo m (plural rodei)

1. rodeo

Etymology 2

From its genus name.

Noun

rodeo m (plural rodei)

1. bitterling (any fish of the genus Rhodeus)

Anagrams

• erodo, odore

Latvian

Noun

rodeo m (invariable)

1. rodeo

Polish

Etymology

From English rodeo, from Spanish rodear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??d?.?/

Noun

rodeo n (indeclinable)

1. (sports) rodeo
2. rodeo (gathering of cattle to be branded)

Further reading

• rodeo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rodeo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From rodear

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?deo/, [ro?ð?e.o]

Noun

rodeo m (plural rodeos)

1. rodeo
2. detour

   Synonym: desvío

3. roundabout

Derived terms

• andarse con rodeos

Verb

rodeo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of rodear.

English

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ste?.di.?m/
• Hyphenation: sta?di?um

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.
   • , 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

References

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

Czech

Alternative forms

• stádium

Noun

stadium n

1. stage, phase

See also

• fáze f

Further reading

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

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

Pronunciation

• 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

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta.di.um/, [?s?t?äd?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.di.um/, [?st???d?ium]

Noun

stadium n (genitive stadi? or stad?); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Synonyms

• (measure of distance): stadi? (plurale tantum)

Derived terms

• stadi?lis
• stadi?tus

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, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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

Malay

Etymology

From English stadium, from Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion), from ??????? (stádios), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?-.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /stadiom/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /stadi?m/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

stadium

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (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.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek ???????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stad.jum/

Noun

stadium n

1. stage, phase

Declension

Synonyms

• faza