lanista

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin lanista

Noun[edit]

lanista (plural lanistas or lanisti)

  1. (historical) The trainer or manager of a team of gladiators.

Etruscan[edit]

Romanization[edit]

lanista

  1. Romanization of 𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌀

Italian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin lanista.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /laˈni.sta/
  • Rhymes: -ista
  • Hyphenation: la‧nì‧sta

Noun[edit]

lanista m (plural lanisti)

  1. (historical) owner and trainer of gladiators

Further reading[edit]

  • lanista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

According to Isidore, a borrowing from Etruscan (see Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌀 (lanista, “headsman; gladiator”)) and also derived from the verb laniō (see also lanius (“butcher”)).[1] Ernout and Meillet view the -a ending as supporting an Etruscan origin.[2] However, De Vaan suggests an Indo-European etymology for lanius (“butcher”) and questions the Etruscan origin of this word family.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lanista m (genitive lanistae); first declension

  1. trainer or manager of a team of gladiators

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lanista lanistae
Genitive lanistae lanistārum
Dative lanistae lanistīs
Accusative lanistam lanistās
Ablative lanistā lanistīs
Vocative lanista lanistae

References[edit]

  1. ^ Isidore of Seville (c. 625) W. M. Lindsay, editor, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum, published 1911, retrieved 2024-04-19; republished as Bill Thayer, editor, Isidore of Seville: The Etymologies (or Origins)‎[1], web, unknown date: “Lanista, gladiator, id est carnifex, Tusca lingua appellatus, a laniando scilicet corpora.”
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “lanista”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[2] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 340
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lanius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 326

Further reading[edit]

  • “lanista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lanista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lanista 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)
  • lanista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lanista”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Anagrams[edit]

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