Gladiatrix

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    gladiator (female) rare

    "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)."

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gladiatress

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"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)."

Etymology

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

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