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 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

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:

  (file)

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