rudiarius

Latin

Etymology

From rudis +‎ -ārius, in reference to gladiators being presented with a rudis on their discharge from service.

Pronunciation

Noun

rudiārius m (genitive rudiāriī or rudiārī); second declension

  1. (gladiatorial combat) retired gladiator

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rudiārius rudiāriī
genitive rudiāriī
rudiārī1 		rudiāriōrum
dative rudiāriō rudiāriīs
accusative rudiārium rudiāriōs
ablative rudiāriō rudiāriīs
vocative rudiārie rudiāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “rudiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rudiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • “rudiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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