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Stade vs Stadial - What's the difference?

stade | stadial |

As a proper noun stade

is a city in lower saxony, germany.

As an adjective stadial is

(geology) pertaining to a glacial stade.

As a noun stadial is

(geology) a short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

stade

English

Etymology 1

Compare (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A landing place or wharf.
    • (Knight)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) stade.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A stadium.
    • (John Donne)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    stadial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
  • (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 188:
  • *:He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia stadial) (en noun)
  • (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.