tutrix
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tūtrīx. By surface analysis, tutor + -trix.
Noun
tutrix (plural tutrixes or tutrices)
- (obsolete) A female tutor (teacher).
- (Quebec law) A female tutor (person other than a parent having charge of a child or other person requiring protection).
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From tueor (“to look or gaze at”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.triːks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪uː.t̪riks]
Noun
tūtrīx f (genitive tūtrīcis, masculine tūtor); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tūtrīx | tūtrīcēs |
| genitive | tūtrīcis | tūtrīcum |
| dative | tūtrīcī | tūtrīcibus |
| accusative | tūtrīcem | tūtrīcēs |
| ablative | tūtrīce | tūtrīcibus |
| vocative | tūtrīx | tūtrīcēs |
Descendants
- → Spanish: tutriz
References
- “tutrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tutrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.