Football

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derivatives 1.2.3 Translations 1.2.4 Related terms 1.2.5 See also 2 French 3 Interlingua 3.3 Noun

English

Noun

1. (British) 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.
2. (US) a game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
3. (Canada) Canadian football.
4. The ball used in football (any of the above games).

• (1): association football (all varieties of English), soccer (all varieties of English), footie (British slang)
• (2): (British) American football, (Australian) gridiron, gridiron football
• (3): (outside Canada) Canadian football
• (4): ball

• Dutch: voetbal (1)
• French: football m (1), foot m (1); ballon de football m (4), ballon m (4)
• Frisian: fuotbal (1)
• German: Fußball (1)
• Guarani: vakapi (1)
• Indonesian: sepakbola (1)
• Italian: calcio m (1); pallone di calcio m (4), pallone m (4)
• Portuguese: futebol (1)
• Spanish: fútbol (1)
• Swedish: fotboll (1)