mirmillo

English

Alternative forms

• myrmillo

Etymology

Latin

Noun

mirmillo (plural mirmillos or mirmillones)

1. (historical) A kind of gladiator, known for wearing a Gallic helmet with the image of a fish.

Latin

Alternative forms

• murmillō
• myrmillō

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόρμυλος (mórmulos), a variant of μορμύρος (mormúros, “striped seabream, Lithognathus mormyrus”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mirˈmil.loː/, [mɪrˈmɪlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mirˈmil.lo/, [mirˈmilːo]

Noun

mirmillō m (genitive mirmillōnis); third declension

1. a kind of gladiator, known for wearing a Gallic helmet with the image of a fish

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mirmillō	mirmillōnēs
Genitive	mirmillōnis	mirmillōnum
Dative	mirmillōnī	mirmillōnibus
Accusative	mirmillōnem	mirmillōnēs
Ablative	mirmillōne	mirmillōnibus
Vocative	mirmillō	mirmillōnēs

Derived terms

• mirmillōnicus

See also

• retiārius
• thraex

References

• “mirmillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mirmillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mirmillo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.