stade
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /steɪd/
Etymology 1
From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio.
Noun
stade (plural stades)
- (historical) Synonym of stadion: a former Greek unit of distance (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).
- (dated) A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
- A stage of progress
Etymology 2
From Spanish estado, from Latin status (“standing”), in reference to it being roughly the height of a grown man. Doublet of estate, state, status, and estado.
Noun
stade (plural stades)
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
- (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.
Etymology 3
From Dutch stad. Doublet of stead.
Noun
stade (plural stades)
Etymology 4
From German Stade, a town in Hanover.
Noun
stade (plural stades)
Etymology 5
From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (“shore”).
Noun
stade (plural stades)
Related terms
References
- "stade, n.1", "n.2", "n.3", & "n.4", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- "stade" in William Henry Smith's 1867 The Sailor's Word-Book.
Anagrams
- AEDST, sadet, Dates, teads, asdet, sated, desat, stead, TASed, Deats, dates, tsade, Desta, tased, Stead
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Noun
stade
French
Etymology
From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), neuter form of στάδιος (stádios, “stable, firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to be standing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stad/
- Homophone: stades
Audio: (file)
Noun
stade m (plural stades)
- (historical) stadion (Ancient Greek unit of measurement)
- stadium (Greek race course)
- stadium (sports arena)
- (medicine) stage
- un stade avancé d’une maladie ― an advanced stage of an illness
- stage (phase)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: stat
Further reading
- “stade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Gothic
Romanization
stade
- romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌳𐌴
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stade
- (non-standard since 2012) past participle of standa