palaestra
[puh-les-truh]
- Greek Antiquity. palestra.
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palestra
or pa·laes·tra
[puh-les-truh]
- a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
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Origin of palestra
1375–1425; late Middle English palestre < Latin palaestra a wrestling school, place of exercise < Greek palaístra, equivalent to palais-, variant stem of palaíein to wrestle + -tra feminine noun suffix of place
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Historical Examples of palaestra
Thereupon I led Ctesippus into the Palaestra, and the rest followed.
LysisPlato
And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!
CharmidesPlato
Leave the forum, the palaestra, the race-course, and gymnasium?
The Carmina of Caius Valerius CatullusCaius Valerius Catullus
Here stood a statue of the patron divinity of the Palaestra.
Pompeii, Its Life and ArtAugust Mau
First there was a court, palaestra, surrounded by a colonnade.
Pompeii, Its Life and ArtAugust Mau
palaestra
esp US palestra
- (in ancient Greece or Rome) a public place devoted to the training of athletes
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Word Origin for palaestra
C16: via Latin from Greek palaistra, from palaiein to wrestle
palestra
- the usual US spelling of palaestra
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Word Origin and History for palaestra
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palestra
early 15c., from Old French palestre (12c.), from Latin palaestra, from Greek palaistra "gymnasium, public place for exercise," originally "wrestling school," from palaiein "to wrestle" (of unknown origin) + -tra, suffix denoting place.
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