ludus

From Latin ludus.

ludus (plural ludi)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) private school outside the home where a teacher (called a litterator or a magister ludi, and often of Greek origin) taught boys and some girls at the age of 7 basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and sometimes Greek, until the age of 11

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ludus

1. conditional of ludi

Along with lūdō either from Proto-Italic *loidos, from Proto-Indo-European *loydos < *leyd- (“to play”) or from Etruscan.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.dus/, [ˈɫ̪uːd̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.dus/, [ˈluːd̪us]

lūdus m (genitive lūdī); second declension

1. school
2. game, sport, play

   Synonyms: lūsus, iocus

3. (in plural) public spectacle, games, stage plays/productions
4. fun

Second-declension noun.

• lūdus litterārius (“primary school, elementary school”)

• lūdībrium
• lūdicer
• lūdiō
• lūdius

• “ludus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ludus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ludus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ludus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give funeral games in honour of a person: ludos funebres alicui dare
    
  • an elementary school: ludus (discendi or litterarum)
    
  • the piece; the play: fabula, ludus scaenicus
    
  • to institute games: ludos apparare
    
  • to give public games in honour of Jupiter: ludos facere, edere (Iovi)
    
  • to revive public games: ludos instaurare
    
  • a school for gladiators: ludus gladiatorius
    
  • crowded games: celebritas ludorum
    
  • sumptuous public games: magnificentia ludorum
    
  • (ambiguous) performances in the circus; theatrical perfomances: ludi circenses, scaenici
    
  • (ambiguous) sumptuous public games: ludi apparatissimi
    
  • (ambiguous) the Olympian, Pythian games: ludi Olympia (not ludi Olympici), Pythia
    
  • (ambiguous) gymnastic contests: ludi gymnici