gladiatrix

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gladiatrix

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

noun gladiatrixes · gladiatrices

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).
Similar: gladiatress

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noun gladiator (female)

Español	gladiadora
Português	gladiadora
Français	gladiatrice, gladiateure
Deutsch	Gladiatorin
Italiano	gladiatrice

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@misc{gladiatrix_2026,
  title = {gladiatrix},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gladiatrix},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}