gladiatrix

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

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gladiatrix (plural gladiatrixes or gladiatrices)

1. (rare) gladiator (female)
   • 1976, Elise Boulding, The underside of history: a view of women through time:

     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).

• gladiatress (very rare)

From gladiātor +‎ -trīx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɫa.diˈaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡla.d̪iˈaː.t̪riks]

gladiātrīx f (genitive gladiātrīcis, masculine gladiātor); third declension

1. female equivalent of gladiātor: gladiatress, gladiatrix
   • 1642, P. Andreæ Pinti Ramirez, Vlysiponensis, è Societate Iesu, Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Dramatico tenore, Litterali allegoria, tropologicis notis explicatum. Opus noua tantum explicatione contentum; vbi ad eorum, quæ afferuntur, caussas, aut rectâ duceris, aut coniecturâ induceris. Tomus vnus, Indicibus necessarijs clarus, nunc primùm editus‎^[1], Lugdunum, page 348, left column:

     [...] gladiatricis ferrum recipere iubebatur. [...]

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Third-declension noun.

• English: gladiatrix (cf. gladiatress)
• French: gladiatrice (cf. gladiateure, from gladiateur)
• Italian: gladiatrice