{"id":22187,"date":"2022-05-26T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22187"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:16:27","slug":"podiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22187","title":{"rendered":"Podiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dutch the word <strong>podium<\/strong> [po\u02d0.di.(j)\u028fm] means stage, and also podium or platform. It comes from Latin word <em>podium<\/em> (balcony, especially in an amphitheatre, parapet, podium), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (p\u00f3dion &#8211; base), a diminutive of <em>\u03c0\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2<\/em> (po\u00fas &#8211; foot, leg), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>p\u1e53ds<\/em> (foot) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/podium#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasahqphoto\/44778883112\/in\/photolist-2bdXtSQ-TKmWWW-bPYmBM-2a3Vqi5-2bc7YUV-smejgu-GoSwe2-2fTEyRK-S87xtz-2aZ2w13-Qt7Vgj-24XQZd7-29Hw8wd-YZXiXz-21R764y-24eCHma-25f4wfN-27Krxb7-E1rNiz-2fxUUAB-29HjQYT-2ewcTyJ-25ZaVko-21R74Th-RoxChN-HVgJeG-23Qw4hZ-2dJdoqX-XiaePX-M6Q9bS-2e9tX6U-28Yx3y9-24XR4ud-7MtDFF-2bEthzE-25CudRy-247VJkL-22Yw2WS-Tv4j9f-ZeQ9hf-SAQpRy-NSYt5j-21fpUMS-DasHV9-21fpTXA-25f4whG-21eNYVf-27HUGCw-2apSEMh-QBZ7E2\" title=\"AIAA NASA 60th Anniversary Reception (NHQ201809200009)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1902\/44778883112_7485cd7bc6_z.jpg\" alt=\"AIAA NASA 60th Anniversary Reception (NHQ201809200009)\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hoofdpodium = main stage<\/li>\n<li>podiumbeest = someone who enjoys being on stage and is often on stage (&#8220;stage beast&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>podiumkunsten = performing arts<\/li>\n<li>poppodium = a venue where pop music is performed live<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The English word <strong>podium<\/strong> (a platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit; any low platform or dais) comes from the same root [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/podium#English\">source<\/a>], as does the word <strong>pew<\/strong>, via the Middle English <em>pewe<\/em>, from the Middle French <em>puie<\/em> (balustrade), from the Latin <em>podia<\/em>, the plural of <em>podium<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pew#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same Latin root include <strong>poggio<\/strong> (hill) and <strong>podio<\/strong> (podium) in Italian, <strong>puig<\/strong> (hill, peak) in Catalan, and <strong>poyo<\/strong> (stone bench) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/podium#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>By the way, in English (and Dutch) the plural of podium can be either <strong>podiums<\/strong> or <strong>podia<\/strong>. Which do you prefer?<\/p>\n<p>The diminutive of podium in Dutch is <strong>podiumpje<\/strong>, which means little or imaginary stage &#8211; I find Dutch diminutives like this very cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dutch the word podium [po\u02d0.di.(j)\u028fm] means stage, and also podium or platform. It comes from Latin word podium (balcony, especially in an amphitheatre, parapet, podium), from the Ancient Greek \u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd (p\u00f3dion &#8211; base), a diminutive of \u03c0\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2 (po\u00fas &#8211; foot, leg), from the Proto-Indo-European p\u1e53ds (foot) [source]. Some related words include: hoofdpodium = main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,94,102,104,107,128,10,15,26,27,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-catalan","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-middle-french","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22196,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22187\/revisions\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}