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gladiatrix

gladiatrix noun: gladiator (female).

Noun

gladiatrix (plural gladiatrixes or gladiatrices)

  1. (rare) gladiator (female)
    • While most gladiatrices fought privately, enough fought publicly so that finally combats were "forbidden in which women fought in companies with each other, or women with dwarfs" (de Beaumont, 1929: 54).1976, Elise Boulding, The underside of history: a view of women through time
    Synonyms:
    gladiatress

Synonyms of gladiatrix

Forms of gladiatrix

pluralgladiatrixes
pluralgladiatrices

Origin of gladiatrix

From Latin gladiātrīx (“gladiator (female)”). By surface analysis, gladiator + -trix.

Questions about gladiatrix

What does gladiatrix mean?
Gladiatrix means gladiator (female).
What part of speech is gladiatrix?
Gladiatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of gladiatrix?
The plural of gladiatrix is gladiatrixes.

Words near gladiatrix in the dictionary

  1. gladiatour
  2. gladiatours
  3. gladiatress
  4. gladiatresses
  5. gladiatrices
  6. gladiatrix
  7. gladiatrixes
  8. gladiature
  9. gladiatures
  10. Gladieux
  11. gladified

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