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
Noun
hippodrome (plural hippodromes)
- A horse racing course.
- Hypernyms: racecourse, racetrack
- (US, slang, sports) A fraudulent sporting contest with a predetermined winner.
- (archaic) A circus with equestrian performances.
Derived terms
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
- Old English: horshūs n
- 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
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Verb
hippodrome (third-person singular simple present hippodromes, present participle hippodroming, simple past and past participle hippodromed)
- (US, slang, sports, especially baseball) To stage a sporting contest to suit gamblers.
See also
French
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/
Noun
hippodrome m (plural hippodromes)
- hippodrome, racecourse, circuit for equestrian sport
Descendants
Further reading
Paronyms
Latin
Noun
hippodrome
- vocative singular of hippodromos