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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rētiārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
retiarius (plural retiari or retiarii)
- (historical) A type of gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
Latin
Etymology
From rēte (“net”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
rētiārius m (genitive rētiāriī or rētiārī); second declension
- A net-fighter; a gladiator who fights with a net.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “retiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “retiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- retiarius 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)
- retiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “retiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers