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Latin
Noun
xysticus m (genitive xysticī); second declension
- athlete
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “xysticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- xysticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “xysticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers