janitrices

janitrices

1. plural of janitrix

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁yénh₂tēr. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἐνάτηρ (enátēr), Sanskrit यातृ (yātṛ), Old Armenian ներ (ner) and Old Church Slavonic ꙗтрꙑ (jatry).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ja.nɪˈtriː.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ja.niˈt̪riː.t͡ʃes]

janitrīcēs f pl (genitive janitrīcum); third declension

1. the wives of two brothers (only attested in Late Latin glosses)

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• “janitrices”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• janitrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ianitrīcēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 294