rétiaire
French, noun/ʁe.sjɛʁ/
rétiaire is spelled R-É-T-I-A-I-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rétiaire is a French masculine noun meaning “retiarius, gladiator with a net” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gladiateur dont l’arme principale était un filet qu’il jetait sur l’adversaire, pour l’envelopper de manière…”.
What does rétiaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineretiarius, gladiator with a net
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gladiateur dont l’arme principale était un filet qu’il jetait sur l’adversaire, pour l’envelopper de manière à lui ôter l’usage de ses membres et les moyens de se défendre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rétiaire
- rétiaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rétiaire?
- /ʁe.sjɛʁ/
- \ʁe.sjɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rétiaire in French?
rétiaire appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).