palaestrita Latin · revision 33704

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc παλαιστρίτης}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pa.ɫae̯sˈtriː.ta]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pa.lesˈtriː.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''palaestrīta''' ''m'' (genitive ''palaestrītae''); first declension^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The Tironian notes have ''palaestrītēs'',^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) and Ammianus ''palestrīta''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|παλαιστρίτης|tr=palaistrítēs|t=one who trains in the palaestra]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|παλαίστρα|tr=palaístra|t=wrestling school]], from [[m|grc|παλαίω|tr=palaíō|t=to wrestle]], whose further origin Köbler, following Frisk, calls unclear.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Verrines'', of the directors of wrestling schools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a teacher of wrestling or the manager of a wrestling school, as in Cicero, and Martial has a slippery ''palaestrīta''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ammianus uses it of skilled wrestlers, ''artificēs palaestrītae''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of masters of wrestling schools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial, of a slippery wrestling master.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus, of skilled wrestlers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A teacher of [[m|en|wrestling]], the manager of a [[palaestra]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|wrestler]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[palaestēs]]

+ * [[palaestra]]

+ * [[palaestrica]]

+ * [[palaestricē]]

+ * [[palaestricōs]]

+ * [[palaestricus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}