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English
Noun
janitrices
- plural of janitrix
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁yenh₂tēr. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἐνάτηρ (enátēr), Sanskrit यातृ (yātṛ), Old Armenian ներ (ner) and Old Church Slavonic ꙗтрꙑ (jatry).
Pronunciation
Noun
janitrīcēs f pl (genitive janitrīcum); third declension
- the wives of two brothers (only attested in Late Latin glosses)
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “janitrices”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- janitrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ianitrīcēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 294