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Ancient Greek
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
- IPA(key): /stá.di.on/ → /ˈsta.ði.on/ → /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).
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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 Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011