stadion

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion). Doublet of stade, stadium, and estadio.

stadion (plural stadia or stadions)

1. (historical) A Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres.

   Synonyms: (historical) furlong, stade, stadium

   Hyponym: Olympic stadion

   Coordinate terms: (1/600 stadion) Greek foot, (1/125 stadion) passus, (1/6 stadion) plethron

   • 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, page 1 (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, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 26:

     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.

   • 2011, Ali Kemal Senan, Phaselis, →ISBN, page 510:

     Major Lacius, together with his soldiers, met the group in a place about two stadions from the court.

2. Synonym of stadium (“Ancient Greek racecourse”).
   • 1882, Franz von Reber, translated by Joseph Thacher Clarke, History of Ancient Art, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], pages 17–18:

     The stadion did not suffice for the races of horses and chariots which had been favorites with the Greeks since the Trojan war. In such early ages, any goal chosen in the plain was sufficient, like the oak-trunk mentioned by Homer; but it could not have been long before the need was manifest of a sloping stand for the spectators and an enclosure for the contestants, and thus the hippodrome, the race-course, was developed similarly to the smaller stadion.

   • 1896, Duffield Osborne, “A Day at Olympia”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume XIX, number 50, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Limited, page 436, column 1:

     […] to my mind, that honor which a man attains by the wealth that allows him to buy the speediest horses and hire the most skilful drivers, compares poorly with the honor he wins who descends naked into the stadion and conquers by the strength of his muscles, the cunning of his brain, and the courage of his heart.

   • 1927, Matlack Price, The ABC of Architecture, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 131:

     Nor can we think of these buildings as minor architectural incidents when we learn that the stadion at Athens seated between forty and fifty thousand people.

   • 1993, Per Bilde, editor, Centre and Periphery in the Hellenistic World, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 98:

     In the Hellenistic period, the town-centres in the southern part of Illyria were further hellenized and, like Byllis (southern Albania), equipped with public buildings such as temples, stadions and theatres, in addition to agoras, peristyles, etc. (Ceka 1985a).

   • 2023, Dean Peeters, Shaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic – Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC–AD 700) (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery; 18), Oxford, Oxon: Archaeopress, →ISBN, pages 58–59:

     In addition, only a small number of cities (and almost no small cities) present evidence for the repair or adaptation of public buildings (i.e. agorai, theatres, odeia, stadions, aqueducts, and baths) during the Early Roman Imperial period.

• adonist, dations

Borrowed from Russian стадион (stadion).

• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧on

stadion

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

• “stadion”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• stadión m

• IPA^(key): [ˈstadɪjon]

stadion m inan

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

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

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), from στάδιος (stádios), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

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• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧on

stadion n (plural stadions, diminutive stadionnetje n)

1. (sports) stadium, arena

• → Indonesian: stadion

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑdion/, [ˈs̠tɑ̝dio̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑdion
• Syllabification^(key): sta‧di‧on

stadion

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

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

• “stadion”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• sidonta, sidotan

From German Stadion (“stadium”), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtɒdijon]
• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧on
• Rhymes: -on

stadion (plural stadionok)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

• labdarúgó-stadion

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

From Dutch stadion, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), from στάδιος (stádios), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of stadium.

• IPA^(key): /staˈdiɔn/
• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧on
• Rhymes: -ɔn, -n

stadion (plural stadion-stadion, first-person possessive stadionku, second-person possessive stadionmu, third-person possessive stadionnya)

1. (sports) stadium: a venue where sporting events are held.

• arena
• stadium (Standard Malay)

• “stadion” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion). Doublet of stadium.

stadion m or n (definite singular stadionen m or stadionet n, indefinite plural stadioner, definite plural stadionene)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion). Doublet of stadium.

stadion m (definite singular stadionen, indefinite plural stadionar, definite plural stadionane)
stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadion, definite plural stadiona)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στᾰ́δῐον (stádion). Doublet of stadium (“stage, phase”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.djɔn/

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• Rhymes: -adjɔn
• Syllabification: sta‧dion

stadion m inan

1. (sports) stadium

   Synonym: arena

• stadion in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stadion in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from German Stadion.

stadion n (plural stadioane)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

stȁdiōn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̏дио̄н)

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

stadion c or n

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

• idrottsarena
• stadium

stadion n

1. (historical) stadion (Greek unit of distance)

• stadion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stadion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stadion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)