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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
sectrīx f (genitive sectrīcis, masculine sector); third declension
- sectrix, which is a curve which can be used to divide an arbitrary angle by any integer.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “sectrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sectrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.