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Interlingua
Noun
athleta (plural athletas)
- 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
Noun
āthlēta m (genitive āthlētae); first declension
- wrestler, athlete
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “athleta”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.