lanista

See also: Lanista

English

Etymology

Latin lanista

Noun

lanista (plural lanistas or lanisti)

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

Etruscan

Romanization

lanista

  1. Romanization of 𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌀

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lanista.

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

Noun

lanista m (plural lanisti)

  1. (historical) owner and trainer of gladiators

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

Latin

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

Noun

lanista m (genitive lanistae); first declension

  1. trainer or manager of a team of gladiators

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lanista lanistae
Genitive lanistae lanistārum
Dative lanistae lanistīs
Accusative lanistam lanistās
Ablative lanistā lanistīs
Vocative lanista lanistae

References
  1. Isidore of Seville (c. 625) W. M. Lindsay, editor, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum, published 1911, retrieved 2024-04-19; republished as Bill Thayer, editor, Isidore of Seville: The Etymologies (or Origins)‎, web, unknown date: “Lanista, gladiator, id est carnifex, Tusca lingua appellatus, a laniando scilicet corpora.”
  2. Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “lanista”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 340
  3. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lanius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 326

Further reading
  • “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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