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English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
oratrix (plural oratrixes or oratrices)
- (obsolete) A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading[1]
References
- ^ Alexander M Burrill (1850–1851) “ORATRIX”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: , volume (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
- A female orator, a female speaker.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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.