στάδια (stadia)

στάδια is an Ancient Greek form of στάδιον, meaning “stade (a unit of length, c. 185 m)”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of στάδιος, “firm, steady”.

Found 265 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.78.4: … αβεῖν τι ἐδώδιμον (ᾠκεῖτο γὰρ ὁ χῶρος) καὶ ὕδωρ μετὰ σφῶν αὐτῶν φέρεσθαι αὐτόθεν· ἐν γὰρ τῷ πρόσθεν ἐπὶ πολλὰ στάδια, ᾗ ἔμελλον ἰέναι, οὐκ ἄφθονον ἦν.

Strabo, Geography 14.2.7: ἐκαλεῖτο δʼ ἡ Ῥόδος πρότερον Ὀφιοῦσσα καὶ Σταδία, εἶτα Τελχινὶς ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκησάντων Τελχίνων τὴν νῆσον, οὓς οἱ μὲν βασκάνους φασὶ καὶ γόητας θείῳ καταρραίνοντα …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.34.6: … υς ὡς τεσσαράκοντά ἐστι, καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ πόλεως Κρώμων οὐ παντάπασι τὰ ἐρείπια ἦν ἐξίτηλα. ἐκ δὲ Κρώμων ὡς εἴκοσι στάδιά ἐστιν ἐπὶ Νυμφάδα· καταρρεῖται δὲ ὕδατι καὶ δένδρων ἀνάπλεώς ἐστιν ἡ Νυμφάς. καὶ ἀπʼ αὐτῆς στάδια εἴκοσί ἐστι …

All forms of στάδιον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.