creatrix
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin creātrīx. Equivalent to create + -trix.
Noun edit
creatrix (plural creatrixes or creatrices)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From creātor (“creator, author, founder”), from creō (“create, make”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kreˈaː.triːks/, [kreˈäːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kreˈa.triks/, [kreˈäːt̪riks]
Noun edit
creātrīx f (genitive creātrīcis, masculine creātor); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | creātrīx | creātrīcēs |
Genitive | creātrīcis | creātrīcum |
Dative | creātrīcī | creātrīcibus |
Accusative | creātrīcem | creātrīcēs |
Ablative | creātrīce | creātrīcibus |
Vocative | creātrīx | creātrīcēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “creatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “creatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- creatrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- creatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.