Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

alipta

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: alip-ta
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games.

noun

alipta muscata, a medicinal paste.

Uncountable

noun

One of the four margas (traditional techniques for playing percussive intruments), which combines strokes of the vamaka and urdhavaka drums.

Example Sentences

"The anointing of the bodies of the youths, and strewing them with dust, before they commenced their exercises, as well as the regulation of their diet, was the duty of the aliptae."
"Marcus's description of himself with his alipta, then, has a whiff of the racy/disreputable, and the alipta is someone far down on the social scale (compare the rest of the letter)."
"Alipta is said to be of two types, ragalipta and rupalipta. The former is a combination of nada with svara and raga, while the latter is a combination of nada with raga and svara."

Etymology

From Latin alipta (“trainer of wrestlers or gymnasts”), from Ancient Greek ἀλείπτης (aleíptēs).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ἀλείπτης, -

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

aliptas (plural) aliptae (plural)

Phrases

alipta muscata

Frequently Paired Words

alipta muscata

Questions

What does alipta mean?: An official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games.
Where does alipta come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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