LekhoriLekhoriAn Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].
From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of lengt...
Select a language to see translations