The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromστάδιον
- English todaystadion
From Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion). Doublet of stade, stadium, and estadio.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stadion
Today it means: A Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres. Full definition →
Ancient Greek στάδιον