lanista

From Latin lanista.

lanista (plural lanistas or lanisti)

1. (historical) The trainer or manager of a team of gladiators.

lanista

1. Romanization of 𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌀

From Latin lanista.

• IPA^(key): /laˈni.sta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: la‧nì‧sta

lanista m (plural lanisti)

1. (historical) owner and trainer of gladiators

• lanista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

According to Isidore, a borrowing from Etruscan (see Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌀 (lanista, “headsman; gladiator”)) and also derived from the verb laniō (see also lanius (“butcher”)).^[1] Ernout and Meillet view the -a ending as supporting an Etruscan origin.^[2] However, De Vaan suggests an Indo-European etymology for lanius (“butcher”) and questions the Etruscan origin of this word family.^[3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laˈnis.ta/, [ɫ̪äˈnɪs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈnis.ta/, [läˈnist̪ä]

lanista m (genitive lanistae); first declension

1. trainer or manager of a team of gladiators

First-declension noun.

• “lanista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lanista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lanista 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)
• lanista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lanista”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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