palaestrita

From Ancient Greek παλαιστρίτης (palaistrítēs, “like a wrestler; those who practised in the palaestra”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.ɫae̯sˈtriː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.lesˈt̪riː.t̪a]

palaestrīta f (genitive palaestrītae); first declension

1. The director or manager of a wrestling-school.
2. A wrestler.

First-declension noun.

• (wrestler): palaestēs

• Italian: palestrita
• Spanish: palestrita

• “palaestrita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palaestrita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palaestrita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.