ultrix

Latin

Etymology

ulcīscor (“to avenge”) +‎ -trīx (feminine agent noun suffix). Compare ultor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈul.triːks/, [ˈʊɫ̪t̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈul.triks/, [ˈul̪t̪riks]

Noun

ultrīx f (genitive ultrīcis, masculine ultor); third declension

1. avengeress, avenger, punisher (female)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ultrīx	ultrīcēs
genitive	ultrīcis	ultrīcum
dative	ultrīcī	ultrīcibus
accusative	ultrīcem	ultrīcēs
ablative	ultrīce	ultrīcibus
vocative	ultrīx	ultrīcēs

Descendants

• Italian: ultrice
• Spanish: ultriz

Adjective

ultrīx f

1. avenging
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.473:

     [...] cum fugit, ultrīcēsque sedent in līmine Dīrae.

     [...] when [Orestes] flees, and the avenging Dirae await him at the doorway.

   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebaid 10.911:

     Premit undique lentum
     turba deum frendens et tela ultricia poscit,
     nec iam audet fatis turbata obsistere coniunx.

     • 2004 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

       From all hands the crowd of deities urge their tardy chief, gnashing their teeth and demanding weapons of vengeance, nor does his cowed consort dare longer to obstruct the Fates.

   • c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 2.423:

     Ipsa, pyram super ingentem stans, saucia Dido
     mandabat Tyriis ultricia bella futuris;
     ardentemque rogum media spectabat ab unda
     Dardanus et magnis pandebat carbasa fatis.

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Medea 1.13:

     nunc, nunc adeste, sceleris ultrices deae, crinem solutis squalidae serpentibus, atram cruentis manibus amplexae facem

     Now, now be present, you goddesses, you avengeresses of crime; come with your hair adorned with loose, squalid serpents, come embracing the black torch with your blood-stained hands.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (feminine-only in the singular, feminine- and neuter-only in the plural).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	—	ultrīx	—		—	ultrīcēs	ultrīcia
genitive	—	ultrīcis	—		—	ultrīcium
dative	—	ultrīcī	—		—	ultrīcibus
accusative	—	ultrīcem	—		—	ultrīcēs	ultrīcia
ablative	—	ultrīce ultrīcī	—		—	ultrīcibus
vocative	—	ultrīx	—		—	ultrīcēs	ultrīcia

References

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