alipta
See also: Alipta
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin alipta (“trainer of wrestlers or gymnasts”), from Ancient Greek ἀλείπτης (aleíptēs).
Noun
editalipta (plural aliptas or aliptae)
- (historical) An official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games.
- 1859, William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 581:
- The anointing of the bodies of the youths, and strewing them with dust, before they commenced their exercises, as well as the regulation of their diet, was the duty of the aliptae.
- 2008, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Marcus Aurelius in Love, →ISBN, page 126:
- Marcus's description of himself with his alipta, then, has a whiff of the racy/disreputable, and the alipta is someone far down on the social scale (compare the rest of the letter).
Translations
editofficial responsible for training and anointing athletes
Etymology 2
editShortened from alipta muscata or alipta moschata.
Noun
editalipta (uncountable)
- alipta muscata, a medicinal paste.
Related terms
editTranslations
editalipta muscata — see alipta muscata
Etymology 3
editFrom Hindi or Sanskrit? (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editalipta (plural aliptas)
- (music) One of the four margas (traditional techniques for playing percussive intruments), which combines strokes of the vamaka and urdhavaka drums.
- 1992, Mandayam Bharati Vedavalli, Mysore as a Seat of Music, page 137:
- Alipta is said to be of two types, ragalipta and rupalipta. The former is a combination of nada with svara and raga, while the latter is a combination of nada with raga and svara.
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈliːp.ta/, [äˈlʲiːpt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈlip.ta/, [äˈlipt̪ä]
Noun
editalīpta m (genitive alīptae); first declension
- Alternative form of alīptēs
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | alīpta | alīptae |
Genitive | alīptae | alīptārum |
Dative | alīptae | alīptīs |
Accusative | alīptam | alīptās |
Ablative | alīptā | alīptīs |
Vocative | alīpta | alīptae |
References
edit- “alipta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alipta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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