στάδιον
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σπάδιον (spádion)
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), in reference to the fixed distance of the course. The relation with the alternative form σπάδιον (spádion), which ostensibly looks like a derivative of σπᾰ́ω (spáō, “to draw, drag”), as well as whether one is derived from the other or not, is unclear.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stá.di.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsta.di.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsta.ði.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsta.ði.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsta.ði.on/
Noun
στᾰ́δῐον • (stádion) n (genitive στᾰδῐ́ου); second declension
- (architecture) A 600-foot track for footraces and the surrounding stadium.
- (sports) A 600-foot footrace.
- (historical units of measure) A stade, a unit of distance based on the length of a racetrack, equal to 600 Greek feet (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ στᾰ́δῐον tò stádion |
τὼ στᾰδῐ́ω tṑ stadíō |
τᾰ̀ στᾰ́δῐᾰ tà stádia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ στᾰδῐ́ου toû stadíou |
τοῖν στᾰδῐ́οιν toîn stadíoin |
τῶν στᾰδῐ́ων tôn stadíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ στᾰδῐ́ῳ tôi stadíōi |
τοῖν στᾰδῐ́οιν toîn stadíoin |
τοῖς στᾰδῐ́οις toîs stadíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ στᾰ́δῐον tò stádion |
τὼ στᾰδῐ́ω tṑ stadíō |
τᾰ̀ στᾰ́δῐᾰ tà stádia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | στᾰ́δῐον stádion |
στᾰδῐ́ω stadíō |
στᾰ́δῐᾰ stádia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δεκᾰστᾰ́δῐον (dekastádion)
- σταδιεύς (stadieús)
Descendants
- Greek: στάδιο (stádio)
- → Bulgarian: стадион (stadion)
- → English: stadion
- → German: Stadion
- → Hebrew: אצטדיון
- → Hungarian: stadion
- → Latin: stadium
- → Macedonian: стадион (stadion)
- → Old Armenian: ստադիոն (stadion)
- → Old Georgian: სტადიონი (sṭadioni, “step; stadium”)
- → Russian: стадион (stadion)
- → Serbo-Croatian: stadion, стадион
- → Ukrainian: стадіо́н (stadión)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “στάδιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1387
Further reading
- “στάδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στάδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- στάδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “στάδιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011