oratrix

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English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

oratrix (plural oratrixes or oratrices)

  1. (obsolete) A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading[1]

References

  1. ^ Alexander M Burrill (1850–1851) “ORATRIX”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: , volumes (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, , →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From ōrō +‎ -trīx.

Pronunciation

Noun

ōrātrīx f (genitive ōrātrīcis, masculine ōrātor); third declension

  1. A female orator, a female speaker.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ōrātrīx ōrātrīcēs
Genitive ōrātrīcis ōrātrīcum
Dative ōrātrīcī ōrātrīcibus
Accusative ōrātrīcem ōrātrīcēs
Ablative ōrātrīce ōrātrīcibus
Vocative ōrātrīx ōrātrīcēs

Descendants

References

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