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Latin
Etymology
From bellō, bellātum (“to wage or carry out war”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
bellātrīx f (genitive bellātrīcis, masculine bellātor); third declension
- a warrior woman, female warrior
- (in apposition) warlike
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Adjective
bellātrīx f
- warlike
1573, Jacobus Yetzweirtius, Aldenardias, sive de Subdola ac Furtiva Guesiorum in Civitatem Aldenardensem Irreptione..., Ghent:Hic(ait)est Deus, ille Deus, fero ab hoste redemptũ
Qui genus Israel, rubei per gurgitis aequor
Duxit, in obsequium sese findentibus vndis
Inque locum Pharium fluctu coëunte Tyrannum
Et currus, et equos, et bellatricia mersit
Agmina, et iniusti fregit molimina Regis.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (feminine-only in the singular, feminine- and neuter-only in the plural).
References
- “bellatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bellatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bellatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.