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

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /stá.di.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.di.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.ði.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.ði.on/
(15^th 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).

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

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