stadium

From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio. Displaced native Old English spyrd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧um

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stadium (plural stadiums or stadia)

1. A venue where sporting events are held.

   He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.

2. An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

   Synonym: stadion

3. (historical) Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 245:

     Dionysiodorus […] sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums  […] .

4. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
5. (surveying) A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
6. (biology) A life stage of an organism.

• The alternative plural stadia is occasionally used, chiefly in high-register contexts or when referring to the Ancient Greek unit of measure.

• (venue where sporting events are held): arena
• (graduated rod in surveying): stadia, stadia rod

• “stadium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• stádium

• IPA^(key): [ˈstaːdɪjum]

stadium n

1. stage, phase

• fáze f

• “stadium”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “stadium”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “stadium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin stadium (“a measure of length, commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile, furlong; a race course”), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧um

stadium n (plural stadiums or stadia, diminutive stadiumpje n)

1. a stage; a phase
2. (rare, nonstandard) a stadium

   Synonym: stadion

• beginstadium
• eindstadium
• tussenstadium
• voorstadium

• stadion

• → Indonesian: stadium

From Dutch stadium (“stadium, life stage; stage, phase”), from Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of stadion.

• IPA^(key): /staˈdiʊm/
• Hyphenation: sta‧di‧um
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -m

stadium (plural stadium-stadium)

1. (biology) stadium: a life stage of an organism
2. (pathology) stage; phase

   kanker payudara stadium IV ― stage IV breast cancer

• “stadium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsta.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstaː.di.um]

stadium n (genitive stadiī or stadī); second declension

1. stade (distance of 125 paces)
2. racecourse (athletics)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (measure of distance): stadiī (plurale tantum)

• stadiālis
• stadiātus

• stadiodromos

stadium

1. genitive of stadiī

• “stadium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stadium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "stadium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to run a foot-race: stadium currere (Off. 3. 10. 42)
    
• “stadium”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[3]
• “stadium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stadium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• stadion (Indonesia)

From English stadium, from Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), from στάδιος (stádios), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

• (Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈstadium/ [ˈst̪a.djum]

• (colloquial Malaysia-Singapore) IPA^(key): /steˈdiom/ [st̪eˈdi.om]
• Hyphenation: sta‧dium

stadium (Jawi spelling ستاديوم, plural stadium-stadium or stadium²)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), via Latin stadium.

stadium n (definite singular stadiet, indefinite plural stadier, definite plural stadia or stadiene)

1. a stage (of a process or development)

• stadion

• “stadium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), via Latin stadium.

stadium n (definite singular stadiet, indefinite plural stadium, definite plural stadia)

1. a stage (of a process or development)

• stadion

• “stadium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στᾰ́δῐον (stắdĭon). Doublet of stadion (“arena, stadium”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.djum/

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• Rhymes: -adjum
• Syllabification: sta‧dium

stadium n

1. stage, phase

   Synonym: faza

• “stadium”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “stadium”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

• stadie (nonstandard)

Borrowed from Latin stadium. Doublet of stadion.

stadium n

1. a stage, a phase (delimited part of something that happens)

   Synonym: skede

   i ett tidigt stadium

   at an early stage

   i ett senare stadium

   at a later stage

• stadion

• “stadium”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “stadium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “stadium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• stadium in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)