ambestrix

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Latin

Etymology

From ambedō, ambēsum (“to eat or gnaw around, to waste”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

ambēstrīx f (genitive ambēstrīcis, masculine ambēsor); third declension

  1. a (female) consumer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ambēstrīx ambēstrīcēs
genitive ambēstrīcis ambēstrīcum
dative ambēstrīcī ambēstrīcibus
accusative ambēstrīcem ambēstrīcēs
ablative ambēstrīce ambēstrīcibus
vocative ambēstrīx ambēstrīcēs

References

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