Stadium

Japanese: stadium
Stadium

…The stadium was a rectangle about 200 meters long and 40 meters wide, with a track length of 192.27 meters. This length was called a stadion, which was the unit of measurement in ancient Greece and became the origin of the word stadium. The shortest race was one stadium, and races longer than that were run back and forth on the track. …

From the stadium

…a general term for a venue where various athletic events are held, commonly known as a stadium. The word stadium comes from the Greek word stadion, which means a unit of length (one stadium was about 185m in Athens), and the name of the stadium was used to refer to a stadium with a straight course and to the sprint course used in the ancient Olympic Games.

From [Stadion]

...From around the Hellenistic period, horseshoe-shaped stepped seating was built around the track on three sides, and the Athenian stadium accommodated about 50,000 people. The word "stadium," which refers to a stadium with stepped seating, comes from "stadion." Stadium [Seiji Horiuchi]...

From [Weights and Measures]

…(4) Degrees according to the capabilities of humans and livestock Now, regarding the type of (ii), there are many known units of distance traveled in a certain amount of time. Starting with units based on the stride length of a human walking (Anglo-American pace = about 76 cm, German Schritt = 71-75 cm), units based on compound steps (ancient Chinese step and ancient Roman passus = about 148 cm, which is 1000 times the latter, the mille passuum, which later became the mile), there are also stadiums (plural stadia) and their multiples, the distance that can be walked in a day (ancient Germanic rasta), the distance that can be traveled by car in a day (ancient Indian yojana), and many other examples. Incidentally, one stadium (Greek: stadium) refers to the distance traveled by a person who begins walking the moment the first rays of the sun are seen until the lower edge of the sun leaves the horizon, and is interpreted as about 180 to 200 meters.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "stadium" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…競技場は長さ約200m,幅約40mの長方形で,走路の長さは192.27mであった。この長さをスタディオンstadionと呼び,古代ギリシアの尺度の単位とされ,スタディアムstadium(競技場)の語源になった。1スタディオンが最短の競走で,それ以上の競走は走路を往復して行われた。…

【競技場】より

…各種の運動競技が行われる場の総称で,一般にはスタディアムstadiumと呼ばれるものがこれを代表する。スタディアムという語は長さの単位を意味するギリシア語のスタディオンstadion(1スタディオンはアテナイでは約185m)に由来し,1スタディオンの直線コースをもつ競技場および古代オリンピック競技における短距離走もスタディオンと呼ばれていた。…

【スタディオン】より

…ヘレニズム期ごろから走路の3方をとりまいて馬蹄形の階段状観覧席が造られるようになり,アテナイのスタディオンは約5万人を収容した。なお,階段状観覧席のある競技場をいうスタディアムstadium(英語)という語はスタディオンに由来する。競技場【堀内 清治】。…

【度量衡】より

…(4)人や家畜の能力による度 今度は(ニ)の系統の話であるが,一定時間内に進む道のりのたぐいのものがいくつも知られている。人間が歩くときの歩幅による単位(英米のペースpace=約76cm,ドイツのシュリットSchritt=71~75cm),同じく複歩による単位(古代中国の歩や古代ローマのパッススpassus=約148cm,後者の1000倍のミレ・パッスムmille passuumが,後のマイルにつながる)から始まって,スタディウムstadium(複数はスタディアstadia)やその倍量,あるいは1日に歩くことのできる距離(古代ゲルマンのラスタrasta),車で1日に移動できる距離(古代インドのヨジャーナyojana)その他,さまざまな例がある。ちなみに1スタディウム(ギリシア語ではスタディオン)とは,日の出の最初の光を認めた一瞬に歩き始めた人が,日輪の下縁が地平線を離れる一瞬までに進む距離を意味し,約180~200mと解されている。…

※「stadium」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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