stadial
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
stadial (comparative more stadial, superlative most stadial)
- (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
- (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 188:
- He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
stadial (plural stadials)
- (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German stadial or Latin stadialis.
Adjective edit
stadial m or n (feminine singular stadială, masculine plural stadiali, feminine and neuter plural stadiale)
- done in stages
Declension edit
Declension of stadial
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | stadial | stadială | stadiali | stadiale | ||
| definite | stadialul | stadiala | stadialii | stadialele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | stadial | stadiale | stadiali | stadiale | ||
| definite | stadialului | stadialei | stadialilor | stadialelor | |||
Noun edit
stadial n (plural stadiali)
Declension edit
Declension of stadial
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) stadial | stadialul | (niște) stadiali | stadialile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) stadial | stadialului | (unor) stadiali | stadialilor |
| vocative | stadialule | stadialilor | ||