baseball

See also: Baseball, base ball, and base-ball

EnglishEdit

 
A baseball.
 
A game of baseball.
 
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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

base +‎ ball

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/, /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
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NounEdit

baseball (plural baseballs)

  1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
    • 1817 December, [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, [], 1818, →OCLC:
      It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
  2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Usage notesEdit

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TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English baseball.

NounEdit

baseball m

  1. baseball

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
  • Syllabification(key): base‧ball

NounEdit

baseball

  1. baseball

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative baseball baseballit
genitive baseballin baseballien
partitive baseballia baseballeja
illative baseballiin baseballeihin
singular plural
nominative baseball baseballit
accusative nom. baseball baseballit
gen. baseballin
genitive baseballin baseballien
partitive baseballia baseballeja
inessive baseballissa baseballeissa
elative baseballista baseballeista
illative baseballiin baseballeihin
adessive baseballilla baseballeilla
ablative baseballilta baseballeilta
allative baseballille baseballeille
essive baseballina baseballeina
translative baseballiksi baseballeiksi
instructive baseballein
abessive baseballitta baseballeitta
comitative baseballeineen
Possessive forms of baseball (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person baseballini baseballimme
2nd person baseballisi baseballinne
3rd person baseballinsa

SynonymsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English baseball.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

baseball m (uncountable)

  1. post-1990 spelling of base-ball

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English baseball.[1]

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
  • Hyphenation: base‧ball
  • Rhymes: -oːl

NounEdit

baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)

  1. (sports) baseball

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative baseball baseballok
accusative baseballt baseballokat
dative baseballnak baseballoknak
instrumental baseballal baseballokkal
causal-final baseballért baseballokért
translative baseballá baseballokká
terminative baseballig baseballokig
essive-formal baseballként baseballokként
essive-modal
inessive baseballban baseballokban
superessive baseballon baseballokon
adessive baseballnál baseballoknál
illative baseballba baseballokba
sublative baseballra baseballokra
allative baseballhoz baseballokhoz
elative baseballból baseballokból
delative baseballról baseballokról
ablative baseballtól baseballoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
baseballé baseballoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
baseballéi baseballokéi
Possessive forms of baseball
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. baseballom baseballjaim
2nd person sing. baseballod baseballjaid
3rd person sing. baseballja baseballjai
1st person plural baseballunk baseballjaink
2nd person plural baseballotok baseballjaitok
3rd person plural baseballjuk baseballjaik

Derived termsEdit

Compound words

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further readingEdit

  • baseball in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

ItalianEdit

 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

baseball m (invariable)

  1. baseball
    Synonym: (rare) pallabase

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

EtymologyEdit

From American English baseball.

NounEdit

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

  1. baseball (ball game)

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

EtymologyEdit

From American English baseball.

NounEdit

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

  1. baseball (ball game)

ReferencesEdit

PolishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English baseball.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

baseball m inan

  1. baseball

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • baseball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

NounEdit

baseball n (uncountable)

  1. baseball

DeclensionEdit

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

baseball c

  1. Alternative form of baseboll

DeclensionEdit

Declension of baseball 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative baseball baseballen baseballar baseballarna
Genitive baseballs baseballens baseballars baseballarnas

ReferencesEdit