gladiatorial

English

Etymology

From Latin gladiātōrius +‎ -al.[1] By surface analysis, gladiator +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

gladiatorial (comparative more gladiatorial, superlative most gladiatorial)

  1. Of or pertaining to a gladiator.
    Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 313:
      "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."

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References

  1. ^ “gladiatorial, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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