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Vinony

gladiatrix

noun

  1. female gladiator
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Latin gladiātrīx (“gladiator (female)”). By surface analysis, gladiator + -trix.

  1. gladiator (female)

    “While most gladiatrices fought privately, enough fought publicly so that finally combats were "forbidden in which women fought in companies with each other, or women with dwarfs" (de Beaumont, 1929: 54).”