Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gladiatorial

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English

Syllables: glad-i-a-to-ri-al
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a gladiator.

Example Sentences

"Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome."
""And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country.""
"Think of it: On the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, America’s increasingly senescent president turned the White House lawn into a tacky, bloody gladiatorial arena while capitulating to Iran."

Etymology

From Latin gladiātōrius + -al. By surface analysis, gladiator + -ial.

Inflected Forms

more gladiatorial (comparative) most gladiatorial (superlative)

Derived Forms

gladiatorialism gladiatorially

Frequently Paired Words

gladiator gladiatress gladiatrix

Rhymes With

memorial editorial territorial tutorial gubernatorial pictorial equatorial senatorial dictatorial directorial boreal combinatorial

Questions

What does gladiatorial mean?: Of or pertaining to a gladiator.
Where does gladiatorial come from?: From Latin gladiātōrius + -al. By surface analysis, gladiator + -ial.

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