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Latin
Etymology
From silva (“wood(s), forest”) + cultrīx f (“dweller, inhabitant”), from colō (“inhabit, dwell”) + -trīx f (“-er(ess), -tress”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
silvicultrīx f
- (hapax) that lives in the woods
- Synonym: silvicola
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 63.71–73:
- Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
Iam, iam dolet quod ēgī, iam, iamque paenitet.- I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are?
Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.
1778, François Joseph Terrasse Desbillons, Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus omnes ferè emendatae: quibus accesserunt plus quam clxx novae. Sexta editio, page 238:Hinc se ergo contra silvicultrices feras / Bellator infert- Thus, from here on the combatant rushes against the forest-dwelling wild animals
Declension
Third-declension feminine-only adjective.
References
- “silvicultrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silvicultrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silvicultrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.