Football

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derivatives 1.2.3 Translations 1.2.3.1 Translations to be checked 1.2.4 Related terms 1.2.5 See also 2 French 2.1 Synonym 3 Interlingua 3.1 Noun

English

Etymology

foot + ball

Noun

football (countable and uncountable)

1. (British) (uncountable) A game in which two teams of eleven players each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet. In amateur games it may be a team of five or six, or indeed any number.
2. (US) (uncountable) A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
3. (Canada) (uncountable) Canadian football.
4. (Australia: Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania) (uncountable) Australian rules football.
5. (Australia: New South Wales, Queensland) (uncountable) Rugby League.
6. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
7. Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

Synonyms

• ("football" in Britain):
  • (all varieties of English) association football, soccer (all varieties of English)
  • (British slang) footie
• ("football" in the US): (British) American football, (Australian) gridiron, gridiron football
• ("football" in Canada): (outside Canada) Canadian football
• ("football" in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia): footy, Aussie Rules, VFL (outdated), AFL
• ("football" in New South Wales and Queensland): footy, league
• (ball):
  • (in all varieties of English and in all games called "football") ball
  • (Australia: in Aussie rules and rugby) footy, pill
  • (Australia: in soccer) soccerball
  • (in US: American football) pigskin

Derivatives

• football hooligan
• football match
• football player

Translations

in Britain

Catalan: futbol m Chinese: 足球 Dutch: voetbal n French: football m, foot m German: Fußball Interlingua: football

Italian: calcio m Japanese: サッカー Slovak: futbal m Spanish: fútbol m, balonpié m Swedish: fotboll c

in US

Catalan: futbol americà m Dutch: rugby n, Amerikaans voetbal n Slovak: americký futbal m

Swedish: amerikansk fotboll

in Canada

in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia)

in New South Wales, Queensland

ball

Catalan: pilota de futbol m, pilota m Dutch: voetbal m French: ballon de football m, ballon m

Italian: pallone di calcio m, pallone m Swedish: fotboll c

practise of any of these games

Dutch: voetballen n

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above, removing the numbers. The numbering is unreliable.

• Czech: kopaná f (1)
• Danish: fodbold (1); rugby (2)
• Finnish: jalkapallo (1)
• Frisian: fuotbal (1)
• Guarani: vakapi (1)
• Indonesian: sepakbola (1)
• Portuguese: futebol (1)
• Slovak: kanadský futbal m (3), futbalová lopta f (6)
• Spanish: fútbol (1)

Related terms

• American football
• arena football
• Australian rules football
• Canadian flag football
• Canadian football
• Gaelic football
• touch football
• five-a-side football
• flag football

See also

• Wikipedia article on soccer
• Wikipedia article on American football

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French

football m

1. football (soccer)

Synonym

• foot (colloquial)

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Interlingua

Noun

football

1. football (soccer)