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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tūtrīx. By surface analysis, tutor + -trix.
Noun
tutrix (plural tutrixes or tutrices)
- (obsolete) A female tutor (teacher).
- (Quebec law) A female tutor (person other than a parent having charge of a child or other person requiring protection).
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From tueor (“to look or gaze at”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Pronunciation
Noun
tūtrīx f (genitive tūtrīcis, masculine tūtor); third declension
- a female guardian; tutrix
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “tutrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tutrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.