different between stadion vs stadium

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Noun

stadion (plural stadia)

1. A Greek unit of measurement, equivalent to six plethra or six hundred podes, which, though varying in precise length, is generally accepted to be equivalent to approximately 185·4 metres.
   • 1883: Franz von Reber (translated by Joseph Thacher Clarke), History of ancient art, p257 (S. Low…)

     The stadion did not suffice for the races of horses and chariots which had been favorites with the Greeks since the Trojan war.

   • 1993: David Gilman Romano, Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion, p1 (Diane Publishing Co.; ?ISBN (10), ?ISBN (13))

     The stadion was used specifically for human athletic contests whereas the Greek hippodrome and later the Roman circus were used for equestrian events. The gymnasion and the palaistra were used for training purposes for human athletic events.

   • 2001: Edward Seldon Sears, Running Through the Ages, p26 (McFarland, ?ISBN

     Stadion Race (200 meters)
     

     ??The winner of the Stadion race could justifiably be called the fastest man in the Greek world. According to legend, Herakles, whose feet were 0·32 meters (12·7 inches) long, stepped-off the Stadion at Olympia. Since he chose a distance of 600 “feet”, this made the race at Olympia 192 meters. Herakles staged a race for his brothers, the Kouretes, and crowned the victor with a branch of wild olive. Although the Greek Stadion race was always 600 feet, other Greek gods had “feet” of different lengths. This caused the length of the Stadion race to vary slightly from stadium to stadium. This list of Olympic victors compiled by Hippias in about 400 B.C. lists the Stadion race as the only event in the first 13 Olympic games. Coreobus of Elis, a cook, was the victor in the Stadion race in 776 B.C. and thus the first recorded Olympic victor.

Translations

Related terms

• stadium

Anagrams

• adonist, dations

Czech

Alternative forms

• stadión m

Noun

stadion m

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Declension

Danish

Noun

stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadioner / stadions, definite plural stadionerne)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sta?di?on

Noun

stadion n (plural stadions, diminutive stadionnetje n)

1. (sports) stadium, arena

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?dion/, [?s?t??dio?n]
• Rhymes: -?dion
• Syllabification: sta?di?on

Noun

stadion

1. (sports) stadium
2. stadion (unit of measure)

Declension

Synonyms

• (sports stadium): kilpola (rare, dated)

Anagrams

• sidonta, sidotan

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Stadion (“stadium”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?dijon]
• Hyphenation: sta?di?on
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

stadion (plural stadionok)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Declension

Derived terms

• labdarúgó-stadion

References

Further reading

• stadion in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadion / stadioner, definite plural stadiona / stadionene)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadion, definite plural stadiona)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stad.j?n/

Noun

stadion m inan

1. (sports) stadium

Declension

Further reading

• stadion in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stadion.

Noun

stadion n (plural stadioane)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Noun

st?di?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. (sports) stadium
2. (unit of measure) stadion

Declension

Swedish

Noun

stadion n or c (definite singular stadion, indefinite plural stadion, definite plural stadion)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

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