stade

See also: Stade

English

Etymology 1

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (historical) Synonym of stadion: a former Greek unit of distance (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).
2. (dated) A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
3. A stage of progress
   1. (obsolete) in a journey.
   2. (medicine, obsolete) of a disease.
   3. (geology) in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.

Etymology 2

From Spanish estado, from Latin status (“standing”), in reference to it being roughly the height of a grown man. Doublet of estate, state, status, and estado.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
2. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.

Etymology 3

From Dutch stad. Doublet of stead.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (rare, obsolete) A chief town in an area or country.

Etymology 4

From German Stade, a town in Hanover.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (obsolete) Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.

Etymology 5

From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (“shore”).

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (nautical, obsolete) A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.

Related terms

• staith

References

• "stade, n.¹", "n.²", "n.³", & "n.⁴", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "stade" in William Henry Smith's 1867 The Sailor's Word-Book.

Anagrams

• AEDST, Deats, Stead, TASed, asdet, dates, desat, sadet, sated, stead, tased, tsade

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

stade

1. (archaic) dative singular of stad

French

Etymology

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), neuter form of στάδιος (stádios, “stable, firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to be standing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stad/
• Homophone: stades

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Noun

stade m (plural stades)

1. (historical) stadion (Ancient Greek unit of measurement)
2. stadium (Greek race course)
3. stadium (sports arena)
4. (medicine) stage

   un stade avancé d’une maladie ― an advanced stage of an illness

5. stage (phase)

Derived terms

• à ce stade
• stade anal
• stade oral

 

Descendants

• → Turkish: stat

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dates, datés

Gothic

Romanization

stade

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌳𐌴

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stade

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of standa