Olympiad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From the plural forms Olimpiades, Olympiades, and Olympiadiz of Middle English Olimpias and Olympias (“ancient Olympic Games, 4-year period between these games, intense battle or competition”) from Middle French Olympiade and Old French Olympiade (“ancient Olympic games, 4-year period between these games”), from Latin Olympias (“4-year period between Olympic Games”) whose genitive form was Olympiados or Olympiadis), from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς (Olumpĭắs, “ancient Olympic Games, 4-year period between these games”) whose plural form was Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δες (Olumpĭắdes), from Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpĭ́ā, “Olympia”), the town in ancient Greece where the games were held, + -ᾰ́ς (-ắs, a suffix forming feminine adjectives or nouns), from either Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos, “of or related to Mount Olympus, Olympian, the Olympian Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólŭmpos, “Mount Olympus”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
The use of olympiad for academic competitions aspiring to the level of the Olympic Games was first popularized by the International Mathematical Olympiad, a calque of its Romanian name Olimpiada Internațională de Matematică.
Inflected forms:
form: Olympiads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ol.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: olympiad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A four-year period, particularly (historical) those based on Hippias's computations of the ancient Olympic Games which placed Coroebus's footrace victory in 776 BCE and (sports) those based on the modern Summer Olympic Games first held in 1896.
pos: noun
examples: Ancient sources variously dated the founding of Rome to the 38th year before the first Olympiad, the third or fourth year of the sixth Olympiad, the first year of the seventh or eighth Olympiad, or the fourth year of the 12th Olympiad.
Now was bright Hero weary of the day,
Thought an Olympiad in Leanders ſtay.
Olympiad. 42. about the yeare of Rome 142. ſhee [the planet Venus] is bigger then all the other ſtarres, and ſo cleare that (ſome-times) her beames make a ſhadowe.
Now therefore ſeeing that the firſt yeare of Cyrus his Monarchie (which was the laſt of the ſixtieth Olympiad, and the two hundredth and fortieth yeare from the inſtitution of thoſe games by Iphitus) followed the laſt of the ſeuentie yeares, of the captiuitie of Iuda, and deſolation of the Land of Iſrael; manifeſt it is, that we muſt reckon back thoſe ſeuentie yeares, and one hundred threeſcore and ten yeares more, the laſt which paſſed vnder the Kings of Iuda, to finde the firſt of theſe Olympiads; which by this accompt is the one and fiftieth of Vzzia, as wee haue alreadie noted.
The moſt Antient and Renowned Epoch uſed by the Heathens is that of the Olympiads or Olympick Games, which were inſtituted by one Iphitus, in the Fields of Olympia, a City or Town of the Region Elis in the Peloponneſe; and which laſt whereof fell on the Full Moon, which was the next after the Summer Solſtice. Theſe Games were celebrated every four Years, that is, there were three Years between the Years wherein the next preceding and the next following Olympiad was celebrated. Hence by a compleat Olympiad, is denoted the Space of four Years; the Year wherein the Olympiad was celebrated, being ſtiled the firſt Year of the ſaid Olympiad, and ſo on.
When he was fourteen, he went to work on the starcher. […] It marked an era. It was a machine Olympiad, a thing to date from.
The Games of the XXXII Olympiad is going ahead in Tokyo a year late, despite concerns about coronavirus. […] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese government are pressing ahead with the XXXII Olympiad after it was delayed last summer – albeit in a very different manner from usual.
Emperor Naruhito was caught in a conundrum when it came to wording in his speech in Japanese to declare the 2020 Tokyo Olympics open during the July 23 Opening Ceremony at the National Stadium. […] The official English version for the Tokyo Olympics was: "I declare open the Games of Tokyo celebrating the 32nd Olympiad of the modern era." […] Following discussions among central government officials and the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, it was decided to allow Naruhito to use "kinensuru" for celebrating. The term has more of a nuance of marking or commemorating an important occasion.
gloss: Synonym of Olympic Games: an instance of the ancient or modern Olympic Games.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: Victors at the ancient Olympiads only won an olive wreath but were usually freed from paying taxes for the remainder of their life, but modern Olympians have frequently needed to pay taxes on the market value of their gold, silver, or bronze medals.
It was their [the priests of Jupiter Olympius's] Buſineſs, alſo not only to regiſter the Names of the Victors in the ſeveral Games, with other Matters relating to them, but alſo whatever occurr'd remarkable, during the Intervals between the Celebration of every Olympiad.
Strabo […] makes Corœbus the firſt Victor at the firſt Olympiad of Iphitus; who, he ſaies, was the Reſtorer of them. This Olympiad was in the Year before Chriſt 776.
The noble and free citizens of Epidaphne being, as they declare, well satisfied of the faith, valor, wisdom, and divinity of their king, […] do think it no more than their duty to invest his brows (in addition to the poetic crown) with the wreath of victory in the foot race—a wreath which it is evident he must obtain at the celebration of the next Olympiad, and which, therefore, they now give him in advance.
After the distribution of the prizes, the athletes formed for the traditional procession around the Stadion. Louës [i.e., Spyridon Louis], the victor of Marathon, came first, bearing the Greek flag; then the Americans, the Hungarians, the French, the Germans. […] The king announced that the first Olympiad was at an end, and left the Stadion, the band playing the Greek national hymn, and the crowd cheering.
[I]t is the intention of the management of the exposition to make the Olympiad of 1904 the greatest ever held. The first of these modern Olympiads—which are the reproduction of the famous games of Ancient Greece—was held at Athens in 1896, when an American astonished the world by winning the discus-throwing championship. […] The representatives of athletics in America propose that nothing shall be left undone to make this first American Olympiad a phenomenal success.
1950 marks the twilight of one of the greatest eras of California crew history. Many of the graduating crew men were in the jayvee Poughkeepsie winning boat in 1947; the next year these same men rowed to the eight-oared championship in the 14th Olympiad in England.
gloss: A competition aspiring to the importance of the Olympic Games or considered similar to them, especially one occurring at 4-year intervals, representing a national or international range of amateur student rather than professional adult competition, and/or requiring the highest level of ability in the field for success.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: the International Mathematical Olympiad... the Science Olympiad... the International Science Olympiads... the Women's Chess Olympiad...
The Junior Olympiad track and field meet was a major special event with 276 entrants.
Selected competitively from more than 400,000 high school students to represent the United States in the 19th International Mathematical Olympiad in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, July 5–6, an 8-man team emerged victorious over teams from 20 other nations. […] Credited with developing the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1959 is Rumania, the winner that year in competition with Bulgaria, Czechosolvakia, Poland, German Democratic Republic, and Soviet Union. […] The idea of a U.S. Mathematical Olympiad was spawned in 1971 when Prof. Nura D. Turner of SUNY (State University of New York), Albany, authored an article in the American Mathematical Monthly that led in 1972 to the USA Mathematical Olympiad.
[…] Kent Howerton led dominance of the initial Motorcycle Olympiad by AMA professional moto-crossers. […] The fans dug it, the bike press agreed, and the Second Annual Motorcycle Olympiad will be held September 16–17 at Saddleback Park in Orange, California. More on the Olympiad in future issues.
The Prize distribution ceremony of the First National Science Olympiad was held at National Museum Auditorium, New Delhi on October 18. […] The Second National Science Olympiad will be conducted on 28th January 2000.
The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021 will be held between August 13 to September 15, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced. Each national federation intending to take part in the Online Olympiad shall confirm its participation by July 31, it said.
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: Olimpiade
lang: Arabic
word: أُولِمْبْيَاد
roman: ʔūlimbyād
lang: Arabic
word: أُولِمْبِيَّة
roman: ʔūlimbiyya
lang: Armenian
word: օլիմպիադա
roman: ōlimpiada
lang: Old Armenian
word: ողոմպիադ
roman: ołompiad
lang: Asturian
word: Olimpiada
lang: Basque
word: olinpiada
lang: Breton
word: Olimpiadenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: Олимпиада
roman: Olimpiada
lang: Catalan
word: olimpíada
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奧林匹克週期 /奥林匹克周期
roman: àolínpǐkèzhōuqī, -qí
lang: Danish
word: olympiade
lang: Dutch
word: olympiade
lang: Esperanto
word: olimpiado
lang: Estonian
word: Olümpiaad
lang: Finnish
word: olympiadi
lang: French
word: olympiade
lang: Galician
word: olimpíada
lang: Georgian
word: ოლიმპიადა
roman: olimṗiada
lang: German
word: Olympiade
lang: Greek
word: ολυμπιάδα
roman: olympiáda
lang: Ancient Greek
word: Ὀλυμπιάς
roman: Olumpiás
lang: Hebrew
word: אוֹלִימְפְּיָאדָה
roman: olimpyáda
lang: Hindi
word: ओलम्पियाड
roman: olampiyāḍ
lang: Hungarian
word: olimpiász
lang: Ido
word: olimpiado
lang: Indonesian
word: Olimpiade
lang: Interlingua
word: olympiade
lang: Italian
word: olimpiade
lang: Japanese
word: オリンピアード
roman: orinpiādo
lang: Korean
word: 올림피아드
roman: ollimpiadeu
lang: Latin
word: Olympias
lang: Malay
word: olimpiad
lang: Middle English
word: Olimpias
lang: Middle English
word: Olympias
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: olympiade
lang: Persian
word: المپیاد
lang: Polish
word: olimpiada
lang: Portuguese
word: olimpíada
lang: Romanian
word: olimpiadă
lang: Russian
word: олимпиа́да
roman: olimpiáda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: олимпијада
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: olimpijada
lang: Sicilian
word: alimpìati
lang: Sicilian
word: ulimpìadi
lang: Sicilian
word: alimpìada
lang: Slovak
word: olympiáda
lang: Slovene
word: olimpijada
lang: Spanish
word: olimpíada
lang: Swedish
word: olympiad
lang: Tagalog
word: Olimpyada
lang: Turkish
word: Olimpiyat
lang: Ukrainian
word: олімпіада
roman: olimpiada
lang: Urdu
word: اولمپکیاڈ
roman: olimpiyāḍ
lang: Welsh
word: Olympiad
lang: Danish
word: olympiade
lang: French
word: olympiade
lang: Greek
word: ολυμπιάδα
roman: olympiáda
lang: Indonesian
word: Olimpiade
lang: Polish
word: olimpiada
lang: Sicilian
word: alimpìati
lang: Sicilian
word: ulimpìadi
lang: Sicilian
word: alimpìada
lang: Tagalog
word: Olimpyada
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奧林匹克 /奥林匹克
roman: àolínpǐkè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奧林匹克競賽 /奥林匹克竞赛
roman: àolínpǐkè jìngsài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奧賽 /奥赛
roman: àosài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奧林匹亞 /奥林匹亚
roman: àolínpǐyà
lang: German
word: Olympiade
lang: Indonesian
word: Olimpiade
lang: Polish
word: olimpiada
lang: Portuguese
word: olimpíada
lang: Romanian
word: olimpiada
lang: Russian
word: олимпиада
roman: olimpiada
lang: Sicilian
word: alimpìati
lang: Sicilian
word: ulimpìadi
lang: Sicilian
word: alimpìada
lang: Ukrainian
word: олімпіада
roman: olimpiada