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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin speculātrīx. By surface analysis, speculate + -trix.
Noun
speculatrix
- A female speculator.
Latin
Etymology
From speculor, speculātum (“to watch, to observe”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
speculātrīx f (genitive speculātrīcis, masculine speculātor); third declension
- a (female) watcher or spy
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “speculatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speculatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speculatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.