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gladiatrix

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin gladiātrīx (gladiator (female)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gladiatrix (plural gladiatrixes or gladiatrices)

  1. (rare) gladiator (female)
    • 1976, Elise Boulding, The underside of history: a view of women through time:
      While most gladiatrices fought privately, enough fought publicly so that finally combats were "forbidden in which women fought in companies with each other, or women with dwarfs" (de Beaumont, 1929: 54).

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Translations

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Latin

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Etymology

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From gladiātor +‎ -trīx.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gladiātrīx f (genitive gladiātrīcis, masculine gladiātor); third declension

  1. female equivalent of gladiātor: gladiatress, gladiatrix
    • 1642, P. Andreæ Pinti Ramirez, Vlysiponensis, è Societate Iesu, Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Dramatico tenore, Litterali allegoria, tropologicis notis explicatum. Opus noua tantum explicatione contentum; vbi ad eorum, quæ afferuntur, caussas, aut rectâ duceris, aut coniecturâ induceris. Tomus vnus, Indicibus necessarijs clarus, nunc primùm editus[1], Lugdunum, page 348, left column:
      [...] gladiatricis ferrum recipere iubebatur. [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative gladiātrīx gladiātrīcēs
genitive gladiātrīcis gladiātrīcum
dative gladiātrīcī gladiātrīcibus
accusative gladiātrīcem gladiātrīcēs
ablative gladiātrīce gladiātrīcibus
vocative gladiātrīx gladiātrīcēs

Descendants

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