palaestra

[ puh-les-truh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural pa·laes·tras, pa·laes·trae [p, uh, -, les, -tree].

palaestra

/ -ˈliː-; pəˈlɛstrə /

C16: via Latin from Greek palaistra, from palaiein to wrestle

The priests deserted the Temple for the palaestra and the young nobles wore the Greek cap.

The building, he replied, is a newly erected Palaestra; and the entertainment is generally conversation, to which you are welcome.

Here the place of meeting, which is also a palaestra, is quite forgotten, and the boys play a subordinate part.

Inside a palaestra, the peristyle ought to be laid out as described above.

The weakling never appeared in the Palaestra, which even the great Mark Antony did not disdain to visit.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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