stadium

• n. スタジアム；野外の大きな運動場

ラテン語のstadium、長さの測定単位、ランニングトラック、コース、古代ギリシャ語のstadion、長さの測定単位、ランニングトラック、コース、特にオリンピックのスプリントトラック、stadios、固定された、PIE*sta、スタンド、立っている、スタンド、距離との語源から。古代ギリシャ時代、1スタジアムは約1/8マイル、185メートルだった。後に競技場（stadium）に由来する。

stadium

stadium: [16] Greek stádion denoted a ‘racetrack’, particularly the one at Olympia, which was about 185 metres long. In due course the word came to be used as a term for a measure of length equal to this, and that was the sense in which English originally acquired it, via Latin stadium. The original ‘racetrack’ was introduced in the 17th century, and ‘sports arena’ is a modern development of this. The Greek word itself was an alteration of an earlier spádion ‘racetrack’, a derivative of span ‘pull’ (source of English spasm). The change from sp- to st- was perhaps set in motion by Greek stádios ‘fixed, firm’.
=> spasm

stadium (n.)

late 14c., "a foot race; an ancient measure of length," from Latin stadium "a measure of length; a course for foot-racers" (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile or a little over 600 English feet; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Greek stadion "a measure of length; a race-course, a running track," especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadion in length. The meaning "running track," recorded in English from c. 1600, was extended to mean in modern-day context "large, open oval structure with tiers of seats for viewing sporting events" (1834).

"Originally the distance between successive stations of the shouters and runners employed to estimate distances" [Century Dictionary]. According to Barnhart, the Greek word might literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from stadios "firm, fixed," from PIE root *sta- "to stand"), or it may be from spadion, from span "to draw up, pull," with form influenced by stadios.

1. A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.

1000人のサポーターが体育館に割り込んで応援した。

2.Thousands of people，mainly Zulus，assembled in a stadium in Thokoza.

数千の人は、主にズールー族で、トークンのあるスタジアムに集まっている。

3.The city fathers have just given final approval to a new stadium .

市当局者は新しい体育館を建設することに同意したばかりだ。

4.The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators.

このスタジアムには8万人以上の観客席が配置されている。

5.The stadium will be as near as dammit empty.

スタジアムにはほとんど人がいません。