Noun: palaestra
| Singular | palaestra |
| Plural | palaestras; palaestrae |
Sample Sentences
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Athenian culture flourished in externalities, the open air of the agora and the nudity of the palestra. [1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:]
Nouns inflected like palaestra
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin palaestra, from Ancient Greek παλαίστρα (palaístra, “wrestling school”). See: Latin Nouns '
palaestra', Ancient Greek Nouns '
παλαίστρα'.