στάδιον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.,<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">race-course, stadium</b>, sec. as length-measure of changing length, after Hdt. 2, 149 = 100 <b class="b3">ὀργυιαί</b> or 6 <b class="b3">πλέθρα</b> (Thgn., Pi., IA.).<br />Other forms: pl. <b class="b3">-ια</b> and <b class="b3">-ιοι</b> (sc. <b class="b3">δρόμοι</b>).<br />Compounds: As 2. element in <b class="b3">σταδιο-δρόμος</b> m. [[racer]] (Simon., Att.), later <b class="b3">σταδια-</b> στάδιον <b class="b2">id.</b> (hell. a. late inscr. a. o.; hypercorrect formation after the plur. <b class="b3">στάδια</b>); often as 2. member, esp. after numerals, e.g. <b class="b3">ὀκτα-</b> (<b class="b3">ὀκτω-</b>) <b class="b3">στάδιος</b> <b class="b2">measuring eight st.</b> (Plb., Str.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σταδι-εύς</b> m. [[racer]] (Plb. a.o.; Bosshardt 43), <b class="b3">-εύω</b> [[to run for the wager]] (Arist. a. o.), <b class="b3">-αῖος</b> <b class="b2">measuring one st.</b> (Plb., D.H. a.o.), <b class="b3">-ασμός</b> m. <b class="b2">measuring by st.</b> (Str. a.o.: <b class="b3">*στα-διάζω</b>).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Old folketymol. tranformation of <b class="b3">σπάδιον</b> (Argiv.; s. [[σπάω]]) after <b class="b3">στάδιος</b> (Prellwitz s. v.).? Diff. Bechtel Dial. 2, 473 : <b class="b3">στάδιον</b> original; from this by dissim. <b class="b3">σπά-διον</b>. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[stadium]] <b class="b2">race-course</b>.