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Latin
Etymology
From sitiō, sitītum (“to thirst”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
sitītrīx f (genitive sitītrīcis, masculine sitītor); third declension
- (post-Classical) female thirster, woman who thirsts
1889, Alexander Reifferscheid, Quellen zur Geschichte des geistigen Lebens in Deutschland während des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts nach Handschriften, Henninger, page 254:Instans superba regibus, Sancti sititrix sanguinis, Quae, Christe, de regno tuo Suam facit tyrannidem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun.