gladiatrix
nounEtymology From Latin gladiātrīx (“gladiator (female)”). By surface analysis, gladiator + -trix.
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Rare gladiator (female)
- 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).1976, Elise Boulding, The underside of history: a view of women through time:
- Synonyms
- gladiatress