Olympiad

See also olympiad

English

WOTD – 6 August 2012    

Etymology

Alternative forms

• olympiad

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Noun

Olympiad (plural Olympiads)

1. (historical) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Corbus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.
2. An occurrence of the Olympic games.
3. A competition or series of competitions resembling an Olympiad, especially in science.

Translations

period of four years

• Arabic: أولمبياد (ar) ('ulimbyaad) m, أولمبية (ar) ('ulimbíyya) f
• Catalan: olimpíada (ca) f
• Finnish: olympiadi (fi)
• French: olympiade (fr) f
• German: Olympiade (de) f
• Greek: ολυμπιάδα (el) (olympiáda) f
• Hungarian: olimpiász (hu)

• Italian: olimpiade (it) f
• Japanese: オリンピック (ja) (orinpikku), オリンピアード (ja) (orinpiādo)
• Korean: 올림피아드 (ko) (ollimpiadeu)
• Malay: olimpiad (ms)
• Polish: olimpiada (pl) f
• Russian: олимпиада (ru) (olimpiáda) f
• Spanish: olimpíada (es) f
• Swedish: olympiad (sv) c
• Turkish: Olimpiyat (tr)