marathon
English
editEtymology
editFrom French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹəθən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/, /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈmɛɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: mar‧a‧thon
Noun
editmarathon (plural marathons)
- A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity.
- He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.
- 2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- After a marathon session that included more than 14 hours of mostly negative public comment, the council agreed 11 to 4 to fund the center, and then gaveled out just before 6 a.m.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Bengali: ম্যারাথন (mêrathon)
- → Chinese: 馬拉松/马拉松 (mǎlāsōng)
- → Zhuang: majlahsungh
- → Gujarati: મેરેથોન (merethon)
- → Hindi: मैराथन (mairāthan)
- → Japanese: マラソン (marason)
- → Korean: 마라톤 (maraton)
- → Swahili: marathoni
Translations
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Verb
editmarathon (third-person singular simple present marathons, present participle marathoning, simple past and past participle marathoned)
- (intransitive) To run a marathon.
- 2015 August 1, “‘I was cross that my child had to beg the prime minister for a drug’”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In less than two years, they and their family and friends have skydived, marathoned, tray-baked and dinner-danced their way to £130,000 for Duchenne research through their help4harry campaign.
- (informal, transitive) To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.
- We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.
References
edit- ^ "Μαραθών". A Greek-English Lexicon. 1940. Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott. 12 September 2013, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=*maraqw/n.
Dutch
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editmarathon m (plural marathons, diminutive marathonnetje n)
Descendants
edit- → Papiamentu: máratòn
French
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmarathon m (plural marathons)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Arabic: مَارَاثُون (mārāṯūn)
- → Czech: maraton, maratón, marathon
- → Danish: maraton, marathon (nonstandard)
- → Dutch: marathon
- → Papiamentu: máratòn
- → English: marathon
- → Finnish: maraton
- → German: Marathon
- → Greek: μαραθώνιος (marathónios) (calque)
- → Hebrew: מָרָתוֹן (maraton)
- → Hungarian: maraton
- → Latvian: maratons
- → Lithuanian: maratonas
- → Norwegian Bokmål: maraton
- → Polish: maraton
- → Romanian: maraton
- → Serbo-Croatian: mȁratōn
- → Swedish: maraton
- → Turkish: maraton
- → Vietnamese: ma-ra-tông
Further reading
edit- “marathon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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