στίβος
Greek
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek στίβος (stíbos, “trodden path, track”) with semantic loan from English track (path or course laid out for a race).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editστίβος • (stívos) m (plural στίβοι)
- athletics track
- (sports, by extension) athletics, track and field
- (figuratively) arena, field (a realm in which events take place)
Declension
editDeclension of στίβος
References
edit- ^ στίβος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
Further reading
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στίβος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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