ultrix

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Latin

Etymology

ulcīscor (to avenge) +‎ -trīx (feminine agent noun suffix). Compare ultor.

Pronunciation

Noun

ultrīx f (genitive ultrīcis, masculine ultor); third declension

  1. avengeress, avenger, punisher (female)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ultrīx ultrīcēs
genitive ultrīcis ultrīcum
dative ultrīcī ultrīcibus
accusative ultrīcem ultrīcēs
ablative ultrīce ultrīcibus
vocative ultrīx ultrīcēs

Descendants

  • Italian: ultrice
  • Spanish: ultriz

Adjective

ultrīx f

  1. avenging
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.473:
      cum fugit, ultrīcēsque sedent in līmine Dīrae.
      when flees, and the avenging Dirae await him at the doorway.
    • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebaid 10.911:
      Premit undique lentum
      turba deum frendens et tela ultricia poscit,
      nec iam audet fatis turbata obsistere coniunx.
      • 2004 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
        From all hands the crowd of deities urge their tardy chief, gnashing their teeth and demanding weapons of vengeance, nor does his cowed consort dare longer to obstruct the Fates.
    • c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 2.423:
      Ipsa, pyram super ingentem stans, saucia Dido
      mandabat Tyriis ultricia bella futuris;
      ardentemque rogum media spectabat ab unda
      Dardanus et magnis pandebat carbasa fatis.
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Medea 1.13:
      nunc, nunc adeste, sceleris ultrices deae, crinem solutis squalidae serpentibus, atram cruentis manibus amplexae facem
      Now, now be present, you goddesses, you avengeresses of crime; come with your hair adorned with loose, squalid serpents, come embracing the black torch with your blood-stained hands.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (feminine-only in the singular, feminine- and neuter-only in the plural).

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative ultrīx ultrīcēs ultrīcia
genitive ultrīcis ultrīcium
dative ultrīcī ultrīcibus
accusative ultrīcem ultrīcēs ultrīcia
ablative ultrīce
ultrīcī
ultrīcibus
vocative ultrīx ultrīcēs ultrīcia

References

  • ultrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ultrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ultrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.