hippodrome

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hippodrome, from Latin hippodromos, from Ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”). By surface analysis, hippo- +‎ -drome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpəˌdɹəʊm/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

hippodrome (plural hippodromes)

1. A horse racing course.

   Hypernyms: racecourse, racetrack

2. (US, slang, sports) A fraudulent sporting contest with a predetermined winner.
3. (archaic) A circus with equestrian performances.

Translations

horse racing course

Albanian: hipodrom (sq) m Arabic: مَيْدَان سِبَاق الْخَيْل m (maydān sibāq al-ḵayl), مِضْمَار الْخَيْل m (miḍmār al-ḵayl), هِيبُودْرُوم m (hipodrom) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܐܣܦܪܝܣܐ m (ʾesprēsā), ܚܘܕܪܐ (ḥūḏrā), ܐܦܕܪܡܘܣ m, ܐܝܦܕܪܡܘܢ, ܐܝܦܘܕܪܡܘܢ, ܐܝܦܘܕܪܘܡܘܢ, ܒܝܬ ܪܗܛܐ m (bēṯ rehṭā) Armenian: ասպարեզ (hy) (asparez), ձիարշավարան (hy) (jiaršavaran) Azerbaijani: hipodrom, cıdır meydanı Belarusian: іпадро́м m (ipadróm) Bulgarian: хиподру́м m (hipodrúm) Catalan: hipòdrom (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 賽馬場／赛马场 (zh) (sàimǎchǎng), 競技場／竞技场 (zh) (jìngjìchǎng) Czech: hippodrom m Danish: hippodrom (da) c Dutch: renbaan (nl) m, hippodroom (nl) m or n Esperanto: hipodromo Estonian: hipodroom Finnish: hippodromi (fi); ravirata (fi), laukkarata French: hippodrome (fr) m Galician: hipódromo (gl) m Georgian: იპოდრომი (iṗodromi) German: Hippodrom (de) n, Pferderennbahn (de) f Greek: ιπποδρόμιο (el) n (ippodrómio) Ancient: ἱππόδρομος m (hippódromos) Hebrew: הִיפּוֹדְרוֹם (he) m (hipodróm) Hindi: घुड़दौड़ का मैदान m (ghuṛdauṛ kā maidān) Hungarian: lóversenypálya (hu), hippodrom (hu) Italian: ippodromo (it) m Japanese: 競馬場 (ja) (けいばじょう, keibajō) Kazakh: ипподром (ippodrom) Korean: 경마장(競馬場) (ko) (gyeongmajang) Kyrgyz: ипподром (ippodrom) Latvian: hipodroms m Lithuanian: hipodromas m Macedonian: хиподром (mk) m (hipodrom) Malay: hippodrom Norwegian: Bokmål: hippodrom (no) m Persian: اسپریس (fa) (aspris), هیپودروم (hipodrôm), کرند (fa) (korand) Polish: hipodrom (pl) m Portuguese: hipódromo (pt) m Romanian: hipodrom (ro) n Russian: ипподро́м (ru) m (ippodróm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хи̏подром m Roman: hȉpodrom (sh) m Slovak: hipodróm m Slovene: hipodrom m Spanish: hipódromo (es) m, almidana Swedish: galoppbana c, hippodrom (sv) c Tagalog: ipodromo Tajik: ипподром (ippodrom), аспрес (aspres) Thai: ฮิปโปโดรม Turkish: hipodrom (tr) Ukrainian: іподро́м m (ipodróm) Urdu: گھڑ دوڑ کا میدان m (ghuṛ-dauṛ kā maidān), ہپوڈروم (hipoḍrom) Uzbek: ippodrom (uz), otchopar (uz) Vietnamese: trường đua ngựa

Verb

hippodrome (third-person singular simple present hippodromes, present participle hippodroming, simple past and past participle hippodromed)

1. (US, slang, sports, especially baseball) To stage a sporting contest to suit gamblers.

See also

• hippodrome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hippo-
• -drome

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

hippodrome

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hippodromos, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”). By surface analysis, hippo- +‎ -drome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.dʁɔm/, /i.pɔ.dʁom/

• Audio:

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Noun

hippodrome m (plural hippodromes)

1. hippodrome, racecourse, circuit for equestrian sport

Descendants

• → Turkish: hipodrom

Further reading

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

Paronyms

• hippobrome

Latin

Noun

hippodrome

1. vocative singular of hippodromos