oratrix

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

oratrix (plural oratrixes or oratrices)

1. (obsolete) A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading

References

• “oratrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From ōrō +‎ -trīx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.triːks/, [oːˈräːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈra.triks/, [oˈräːt̪riks]

Noun

ōrātrīx f (genitive ōrātrīcis, masculine ōrātor); third declension

1. A female orator, a female speaker.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ōrātrīx	ōrātrīcēs
genitive	ōrātrīcis	ōrātrīcum
dative	ōrātrīcī	ōrātrīcibus
accusative	ōrātrīcem	ōrātrīcēs
ablative	ōrātrīce	ōrātrīcibus
vocative	ōrātrīx	ōrātrīcēs

Descendants

• English: oratrix
• French: oratrice
• Italian: oratrice
• Portuguese: oradora
• Spanish: oratriz, oradora

References

• “oratrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oratrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oratrix 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)
• oratrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.