-drome

See also: drome, Drôme, and 'drome

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running; racetrack”).

Suffix

-drome

1. (literary) Forms placenames related to racetracks (now especially large covered racetracks) or similar structures.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -drome

aerodrome

airdrome

anadrome

aquadrome

autodrome

cosmodrome

helidrome

hippodrome

hydrodrome

isodrome

levidrome

loxodrome

lunodrome

moondrome

motordrome

orthodrome

palindrome

photodrome

picturedrome

prodrome

sambadrome

seadrome

syndrome

tankodrome

velodrome

videodrome

waterdrome

Related terms

• dromos, dromus

Translations

suffix

• Afrikaans: -droom
• Albanian: -drom m
• Armenian: -դրոմ (-drom)
• Asturian: -dromu m
• Azerbaijani: -drom
• Basque: -dromo inan
• Belarusian: -дро́м m (-dróm)
• Bulgarian: -дру́м m (-drúm)
• Catalan: -drom (ca) m, -droma f
• Czech: -drom m
• Danish: -drom c
• Dutch: -droom (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: -dromo
• Estonian: -droom
• Finnish: -dromi
• French: -drome (fr) m
• Galician: -dromo m
• Georgian: -დრომი (-dromi)
• German: -drom (de) n
• Greek: -δρόμιο (el) n (-drómio)

  Ancient: -δρομος m (-dromos)

• Hebrew: ־דְרוֹם m (-dróm)
• Hungarian: -drom, -dróma
• Ido: -dromo
• Indonesian: -drom
• Interlingua: -dromo
• Italian: -dromo (it) m
• Kazakh: -дром (-drom)
• Kyrgyz: -дром (-drom)
• Latvian: -droms m
• Lithuanian: -dromas m
• Macedonian: -дро́м m (-dróm)
• Malay: -drom
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -drom m

  Nynorsk: -drom m

• Occitan: -dròme m
• Polish: -drom (pl) m
• Portuguese: -dromo m
• Romanian: -drom n

  Cyrillic: -дром (-drom)

• Russian: -дро́м m (-dróm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: -дром m

  Roman: -drom m

• Slovak: -dróm m
• Slovene: -drom m
• Spanish: -dromo (es) m
• Swedish: -drom c
• Tagalog: -dromo
• Tajik: -дром (-drom)
• Turkish: -drom
• Turkmen: -drom
• Ukrainian: -дро́м m (-dróm)
• Uzbek: -drom
• Yiddish: ־דראָם m (-drom)

Anagrams

• Domer, dermo, dermo-, moder, mored

French

Etymology

Extracted from hippodrome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɔm/

Suffix

-drome m (plural -dromes)

1. -drome

   ‎vaccin (“vaccine”) + ‎-o- + ‎-drome → ‎vaccinodrome (“mass vaccination center”)

   ‎samba (“samba”) + ‎-o- + ‎-drome → ‎sambodrome (“sambadrome, Brazilian exhibition center for samba dancing”)

Derived terms

French terms suffixed with -drome

amphidrome

autodrome

baisodrome

boulodrome

gallodrome

hippodrome

sambodrome

vaccinodrome

vélodrome

Further reading

• “-drome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.