alipta

plural aliptas · plural aliptae

1. historicalAn official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games.

   The anointing of the bodies of the youths, and strewing them with dust, before they commenced their exercises, as well as the regulation of their diet, was the duty of the aliptae.

   1859, William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 581

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   Marcus's description of himself with his alipta, then, has a whiff of the racy/disreputable, and the alipta is someone far down on the social scale (compare the rest of the letter).

   2008, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Marcus Aurelius in Love, →ISBN, page 126

1. uncountablealipta muscata, a medicinal paste.

plural aliptas

1. entertainmentOne of the four margas (traditional techniques for playing percussive intruments), which combines strokes of the vamaka and urdhavaka drums.

   Alipta is said to be of two types, ragalipta and rupalipta. The former is a combination of nada with svara and raga, while the latter is a combination of nada with raga and svara.

   1992, Mandayam Bharati Vedavalli, Mysore as a Seat of Music, page 137