rudiarius

== Latin == === Etymology === From rudis +‎ -ārius, in reference to gladiators being presented with a rudis on their discharge from service. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rʊ.diˈaː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ru.diˈaː.ri.us] === Noun === rudiārius m (genitive rudiāriī or rudiārī); second declension (gladiatorial combat) retired gladiator ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “rudiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “rudiarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “rudiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers