stadial
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English
Etymology
From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.
Pronunciation
Adjective
stadial (comparative more stadial, superlative most stadial)
- (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
- (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 188:
- He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.
Derived terms
Noun
stadial (plural stadials)
- (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German stadial or Latin stadialis.
Adjective
stadial m or n (feminine singular stadială, masculine plural stadiali, feminine and neuter plural stadiale)
- done in stages
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | stadial | stadială | stadiali | stadiale | |||
| definite | stadialul | stadiala | stadialii | stadialele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | stadial | stadiale | stadiali | stadiale | |||
| definite | stadialului | stadialei | stadialilor | stadialelor | ||||
Noun
stadial n (plural stadiali)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | stadial | stadialul | stadiali | stadialile | |
| genitive-dative | stadial | stadialului | stadiali | stadialilor | |
| vocative | stadialule | stadialilor | |||