stadiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
• ハイフネーション: sta‧di‧um

名詞

stadium (複数形 stadiums または stadia)

1. A venue where sporting events are held.
   • 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.
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: Printed by 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.

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

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

派生語

参照

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

Latin

語源

From the Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.di.um/, [ˈs̠t̪äd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.di.um/, [ˈst̪äːd̪ium]

名詞

stadium n (genitive stadiī または stadī); second declension

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

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

同意語

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

派生語

• stadiālis
• stadiātus

関連する語

• stadiodromos

参照

• “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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ 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