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Latin
Etymology
From lūdius (“gladiator; performer”) + -a (suffix forming feminine counterparts to masculine nouns), from the root of lūdus (“game, sport, play”) and lūdō (“to play, to appear in a public game”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lūdia f (genitive lūdiae, masculine lūdius); first declension
- an actress, a female dancer
- a gladiator's wife or mistress
86 CE – 103 CE,
Martial,
Epigrammata 5.24.10:
- Hermes , cura laborque ludiarum
- Hermes is the darling and heart-throb of the gladiators' women[1]
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “ludia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ludia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ P. Watson and L. Watson (1996) “Two Problems in Martial”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 46, number 2, page 591