Noun: stadium
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | stadium |
| Pl. | stadiums; stadia |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like stadium
conservatorium,
postscriptum,
antifibrinolyticum,
testimonium,
spectrum,
datum,
trapezium,
mortuarium,
transferium,
ultimatum,
kwantum,
plectrum,
stadium,
gerundium,
Etymology
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-. See: Latin Nouns '
stadium', Ancient Greek Nouns '
στάδιον'.
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