ludia

Latin
FWOTD – 6 March 2023

Etymology

From lūdius (“gladiator; performer”) +‎ -a (suffix forming feminine counterparts to masculine nouns), from the root of lūdus (“game, sport, play”) and lūdō (“to play, to appear in a public game”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lūdia f (genitive lūdiae, masculine lūdius); first declension

  1. an actress, a female dancer
  2. a gladiator's wife or mistress
    • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 5.24.10:
      Hermes [gladiator], cura laborque ludiarum
      Hermes [the gladiator] is the darling and heart-throb of the gladiators' women[1]

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūdia lūdiae
Genitive lūdiae lūdiārum
Dative lūdiae lūdiīs
Accusative lūdiam lūdiās
Ablative lūdiā lūdiīs
Vocative lūdia lūdiae

References
  • “ludia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ludia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. P. Watson and L. Watson (1996), “Two Problems in Martial”, in The Classical Quarterly‎, volume 46, issue 2, page 591
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