creditrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crēditrīx. By surface analysis, credit +‎ -trix.

Noun

creditrix

1. A female creditor.

Anagrams

• directrix

Latin

Etymology

From crēdō, crēditum (“to loan, to lend”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkreː.dɪ.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.d̪i.t̪riks]

Noun

crēditrīx f (genitive crēditrīcis, masculine crēditor); third declension

1. a female creditor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	crēditrīx	crēditrīcēs
genitive	crēditrīcis	crēditrīcum
dative	crēditrīcī	crēditrīcibus
accusative	crēditrīcem	crēditrīcēs
ablative	crēditrīce	crēditrīcibus
vocative	crēditrīx	crēditrīcēs

Related terms

• crēditor
• crēditum
• crēditus
• crēdō
• incrēditus
• incredulus

Descendants

• Italian: creditrice

References

• “creditrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• creditrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.