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Latin
Etymology
From rudis + -ārius, in reference to gladiators being presented with a rudis on their discharge from service.
Pronunciation
Noun
rudiārius m (genitive rudiāriī or rudiārī); second declension
- (gladiatorial combat) retired gladiator
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “rudiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rudiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- “rudiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers