lectrix

Latin

Etymology

From legō, lēctum (to read, verb) +‎ -trīx f (-ess, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

lēctrīx f (genitive lēctrīcis, masculine lēctor); third declension

  1. A female reader

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lēctrīx lēctrīcēs
genitive lēctrīcis lēctrīcum
dative lēctrīcī lēctrīcibus
accusative lēctrīcem lēctrīcēs
ablative lēctrīce lēctrīcibus
vocative lēctrīx lēctrīcēs

Descendants

  • Italian: lettrice

References

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