ludia

ludia

Latin

Etymology

See lūdius

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.di.a/, [ˈɫ̪uːd̪iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.di.a/, [ˈluːd̪iä]

Noun

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

1. 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