The corpus record — Latin

lanista

lanista · m

a trainer of gladiators, fencing-master

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 2 · 1.51/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lănista — Lewis & Short

lănista, ae, m.,

I a trainer of gladiators, fencing-master (class.; cf.: gladiator, athleta, pugil).

I Lit.: num ille lanista omnino jam a gladiatore recessisse videtur, Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118: reus, tamquam clemens lanista, id. Att. 1, 16, 3: regia verba lanistae, Juv. 11, 8: circumforaneus, Suet. Vit. 12: lanistarum familias ex urbe expellere, id. Aug. 42; Juv. 6, 215.—So of fowls: rixosarum avium, Col. 8, 2, 5.—

II Transf., an inciter, instigator, agitator; one who stimulates to wrong or violence: hic se ad eum lanistam contulit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 17: ne videret unius corporis duas acies, lanista Cicerone, dimicantes. Ego lanista? Cic. Phil. 13, 19, 40: lanistis Aetolis dimicare, Liv. 35, 33, 6.

In the wild

lanista Seneca, De Beneficiis 6.12.2
lanistas Suetonius, Divus Julius 26.3
lanista Tertullian, De Pallio 4
lanistarum Suetonius, Divus Augustus 42.3
lanista Martial, Epigrammata 6.82.2
lanistae Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.15

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lanista (scan p. 364; entry #5729).

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