pugnātor

I. a fighter, combatant (perh. not ante-Aug.), Liv. 24, 15; Suet. Caes. 39 fin.; Sil. 15, 598.—Appos.: Dominus quasi vir pugnator, Vulg. Exod. 15, 3; id. Josue, 17, 1.—Transf., adj.: gallus, Plin. 30, 15, 49, § 142.