gladiatrix

English

Etymology

From Latin gladiātrīx (“gladiator (female)”). Doublet of gladiatress.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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).

Synonyms

• gladiatress (very rare)

Translations

gladiator (female)

• Danish: gladiatrix c
• Esperanto: gladiatorino (female)
• French: gladiatrice (fr) f, gladiateure f
• German: Gladiatorin (de) f
• Ido: gladiatorino (female)
• Italian: gladiatrice (it) f
• Latin: gladiātrīx f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gladiatrix f

  Nynorsk: gladiatrix f

• Polish: gladiatorka f
• Portuguese: gladiadora f
• Spanish: gladiadora f
• Swedish: gladiatrix c

Latin

Etymology

From gladiātor +‎ -trīx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡla.diˈaː.triːks/, [ɡɫ̪äd̪iˈäːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡla.diˈa.triks/, [ɡläd̪iˈäːt̪riks]

Noun

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. [...]

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Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gladiātrīx	gladiātrīcēs
Genitive	gladiātrīcis	gladiātrīcum
Dative	gladiātrīcī	gladiātrīcibus
Accusative	gladiātrīcem	gladiātrīcēs
Ablative	gladiātrīce	gladiātrīcibus
Vocative	gladiātrīx	gladiātrīcēs

Descendants

• English: gladiatrix (cf. gladiatress)
• French: gladiatrice (cf. gladiateure, from gladiateur)
• Italian: gladiatrice