Gladiator

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 44

glad′i-ā-tor, n. in ancient Rome, a profe ional combatant with men or beasts in the arena.— adjs. Glad′iāte , sword-shaped; Gladiatō′rial , Gladiā′tory , Gladiatō′rian .— ns. Glad′i at or ship ; Glā′dius , the cuttle-bone or pen of a cuttle-fish. [L., a swordsman— gladius , a sword.]