silvicultrix

From silva (“wood(s), forest”) +‎ cultrīx f (“dweller, inhabitant”), from colō, cultum (“inhabit, dwell”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪɫ.wɪˈkʊɫ.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sil.viˈkul̪.t̪riks]

silvicultrīx f

1. (hapax legomenon) that lives in the woods

   Synonym: silvicola

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.71–73:

     Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
     ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
     Iam, iam dolet quod ēgī, iam, iamque paenitet.

     I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
     where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are?
     Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.

   • 1778, François Joseph Terrasse Desbillons, Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus omnes ferè emendatae: quibus accesserunt plus quam clxx novae. Sexta editio, page 238:

     Hinc se ergo contra silvicultrices feras / Bellator infert

     Thus, from here on the combatant rushes against the forest-dwelling wild animals

Third-declension feminine-only adjective.

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