palaestra

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See also: Palaestra, and palæstra

English

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Etymology

From Middle French palestre, from Old French, from Latin palaestra, from Ancient Greek παλαίστρα (palaístra, wrestling school).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈliːstɹə/, /pəˈlʌɪstɹə/

Noun

palaestra (plural palaestras or palaestrae)

  1. (historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Athenian culture flourished in externalities, the open air of the agora and the nudity of the palestra.
  2. An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield.

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Latin

palaestra Carthāginiēnsis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παλαίστρα (palaístra, wrestling school).

Pronunciation

Noun

palaestra f (genitive palaestrae); first declension

  1. wrestling school, palaestra; place of exercise; gymnasium
  2. wrestling
  3. (figuratively) rhetorical exercises; school of rhetoric, school
  4. (figuratively) art, skill; dexterity
  5. (figuratively, in the language of comedy) brothel

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (wrestling school): oleum

Descendants

References

  • palaestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • palaestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palaestra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • palaestra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • palaestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palaestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin