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bellatrix f sing, terza declinazione (genitivo: bellatricis)
- (donna) combattente, guerriera, soldatessa
- Penthesilea furens, mediisque in milibus ardet, aurea subnectens exsertae cingula mammae, bellatrix, audetque viris concurrere virgo - la furente Pentesilea, brucia (di ardore) in mezzo alle mille (compagne), guerriera, cinge di stringhe dorate la mammella nuda, e vergine osa combattere con gli uomini (Virgilio, Eneide, liber I, 491-493)
- (pronuncia classica) IPA: /bel.laː.triːks/
derivato di bellator, con mutamento di suffisso da -ator ad -atrix; a sua volta dal verbo bellō