viatrix

Latin

Etymology

From viō (“I travel”) +‎ -trīx, from via (“road, path”), compare to the masculine viātor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈaː.triːks/, [u̯iˈäːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈa.triks/, [viˈäːt̪riks]

Noun

viātrīx f (genitive viātrīcis, masculine viātor); third declension

1. (female) traveller, wayfarer

   Coordinate term: viātor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	viātrīx	viātrīcēs
Genitive	viātrīcis	viātrīcum
Dative	viātrīcī	viātrīcibus
Accusative	viātrīcem	viātrīcēs
Ablative	viātrīce	viātrīcibus
Vocative	viātrīx	viātrīcēs

References

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