athleta

See also: Athleta

Interlingua

Noun

athleta (plural athletas)

1. athlete

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs), from ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete for a prize”), from ἆθλον (âthlon, “prize”) or ἆθλος (âthlos, “competition”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aːtʰˈɫeː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈlɛː.ta]

Noun

āthlēta m (genitive āthlētae); first declension

1. wrestler, athlete

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	āthlēta	āthlētae
genitive	āthlētae	āthlētārum
dative	āthlētae	āthlētīs
accusative	āthlētam	āthlētās
ablative	āthlētā	āthlētīs
vocative	āthlēta	āthlētae

Descendants

• → Catalan: atleta
• → Czech: atlet
• → Danish: atlet
• → French: athlète
  • → Romanian: atlet
• → Galician: atleta
• → German: Athlet
• → Hungarian: atléta
• → Italian: atleta
• → Occitan: atlèta
• → Polish: atleta
• → Portuguese: atleta
• → Spanish: atleta

References

• “athleta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “athleta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “athleta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

athleta m or f by sense (plural athletas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of atleta
   • 1934 October 15, “Tentativas de Beccali para melhorar o recorde de 1.500 mts. [Attempts by Beccali to improve the 1500-mt. record]”, in A Tribuna, volume XLI, number 203, Santos, page 3:

     O grande athleta italiano Beccali, que muito sobresaiu nas ultimas Olympiadas de Los Angeles, encontra-se presentemente nos Estados Unidos […]

     The great Italian athlete Beccali, who excelled in the last Los Angeles Olympics, find himself currently in the United States […]