creditrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crēditrīx. By surface analysis, credit +‎ -trix.

Noun

creditrix

  1. A female creditor.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From crēdō, crēditum (“to loan, to lend”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

crēditrīx f (genitive crēditrīcis, masculine crēditor); third declension

  1. a female creditor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative crēditrīx crēditrīcēs
genitive crēditrīcis crēditrīcum
dative crēditrīcī crēditrīcibus
accusative crēditrīcem crēditrīcēs
ablative crēditrīce crēditrīcibus
vocative crēditrīx crēditrīcēs

Descendants

  • Italian: creditrice

References

  • “creditrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • creditrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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