stade
See also: Stade
English
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)
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 5
From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (“shore”).
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.
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
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Noun
stade m (plural stades)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: stat
Further reading
- “stade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gothic
Norwegian Nynorsk
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