🇪🇸 Spanish

estadio

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

el estadio

stadium

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estadio
/el esˈtaðjo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say estadio in Spanish?

IPA
/el esˈtaðjo/

How do you pronounce estadio in Spanish?

estadio is pronounced /el esˈtaðjo/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El estadio nuevo fue construido el año pasado y es muy grande.

The new stadium was built last year and it is very large.

El estadio antiguo necesita reparaciones porque sus estructuras están dañadas.

The old stadium needs repairs because its structures are damaged.

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Why is it masculine?

Estadio is masculine because it derives from Latin "stadius," which itself came from Greek "stadion" (a unit of length and a running track), and Latin nouns ending in "-ius" are typically masculine. The word retained its masculine gender when it entered Spanish and evolved into "estadio."

What is the Spanish word for stadium?

The Spanish word for stadium is el estadio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchstadelemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianstadiolomasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseestádioomasculine

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