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Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Variant of hister, ister, which Livy in Ab urbe condita (7,2) claims to be an Etruscan word.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
histriō m (genitive histriōnis); third declension
- An actor, player.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
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References
Further reading
- “histrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “histrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- histrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
- to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere
- to interrupt an actor by hooting him: histrioni acclamare
- “histrio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “histrio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin