στάδιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σπάδιον (spádion)
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, in reference to the fixed distance of the course.
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
Second declension of τὸ στᾰ́δῐον; τοῦ στᾰδῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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
- σταδιεύς (stadieús)
Descendants
- Bulgarian: стадион (stadion)
- English: stadion
- German: Stadion
- Greek: στάδιο (stádio)
- Hebrew: אצטדיון
- Hungarian: stadion
- Latin: stadium
- Catalan: estadi
- Czech: stádium
- English: stadium
- French: stade
- English: stade
- Italian: stadio
- Spanish: estadio
- Macedonian: стадион (stadion)
- Russian: стадион (stadion)
- Serbo-Croatian: stadion, стадион
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