retiarius

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rētiārius.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛ.tɪˈɑː.ɹɪ.əs/, /ˌɹɛ.tɪˈɛː.ɹɪ.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹi.ʃiˈɛə.ɹi.əs/
• Hyphenation: re‧ti‧ar‧i‧us

Noun

retiarius (plural retiari or retiarii)

1. (historical) A type of gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.

Latin

Etymology

From rēte (“net”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reː.tiˈaː.ri.us/, [reːt̪iˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ret.t͡siˈa.ri.us/, [ret̪ː͡s̪iˈäːrius]

Noun

rētiārius m (genitive rētiāriī or rētiārī); second declension

1. A net-fighter; a gladiator who fights with a net.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rētiārius	rētiāriī
genitive	rētiāriī rētiārī1	rētiāriōrum
dative	rētiāriō	rētiāriīs
accusative	rētiārium	rētiāriōs
ablative	rētiāriō	rētiāriīs
vocative	rētiārie	rētiāriī

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

Hypernyms

• gladiātor

Coordinate terms

• prōvocātor
• secūtor
• Thrax

Derived terms

• contrārētiārius

Descendants

• English: retiarius
• French: rétiaire
• Italian: reziario
• Portuguese: reciário
• Spanish: reciario

References

• “retiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “retiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• retiarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• retiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “retiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers