gladiatorial
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English
Etymology
From Latin gladiātōrius + -al. By surface analysis, gladiator + -ial.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Adjective
gladiatorial (comparative more gladiatorial, superlative most gladiatorial)
- Of or pertaining to a gladiator.
- Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.
- 1831, L E L, chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 313:
- "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."
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Translations
of or pertaining to a gladiator
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References
- ^ “gladiatorial, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
