tutrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tūtrīx. By surface analysis, tutor +‎ -trix.

Noun

tutrix (plural tutrixes or tutrices)

  1. (obsolete) A female tutor (teacher).
  2. (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

Noun

tūtrīx f (genitive tūtrīcis, masculine tūtor); third declension

  1. a female guardian; tutrix

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.