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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἀγωνιστής“a contestant in the public games”
- English todayagonistes
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a contestant in the public games”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest, struggle”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀγωνιστής all →
agonistautagonistophilia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.