retiarius
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rētiārius.
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɹi.ʃiˈɛə.ɹi.əs/
- Hyphenation: re‧ti‧ar‧i‧us
Noun
retiarius (plural retiari or retiarii)
- (historical) A type of gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /reː.tiˈaː.ri.us/, [reːt̪iˈäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ret.t͡siˈa.ri.us/, [ret̪ː͡s̪iˈäːrius]
Noun
rētiārius m (genitive rētiāriī or rētiārī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rētiārius | rētiāriī |
Genitive | rētiāriī rētiārī1 |
rētiāriōrum |
Dative | rētiāriō | rētiāriīs |
Accusative | rētiārium | rētiāriōs |
Ablative | rētiāriō | rētiāriīs |
Vocative | rētiārie | rētiāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “retiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “retiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- retiarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- retiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “retiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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