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Latin
Etymology
From lūdus (“stage-play, show, performance”) + -ius, from the same root as lūdō (“to play”). Compare lūdiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
lūdius m (genitive lūdiī or lūdī, feminine lūdia); second declension
- performer (on stage)
- gladiator (performer in the games)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “ludius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ludius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ludius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ludius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray