ultrix

From ulcīscor, ultum (“to avenge”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊɫ.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈul̪.t̪riks]

ultrīx f (genitive ultrīcis, masculine ultor); third declension

1. avengeress, avenger, punisher (female)

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: ultrice
• Spanish: ultriz

ultrīx f

1. avenging
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.473:

     [...] cum fugit, ultrīcēsque sedent in līmine Dīrae.

     [...] when [Orestes] flees, and the avenging Dirae await him at the doorway.

   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebaid 10.911:

     Premit undique lentum
     turba deum frendens et tela ultricia poscit,
     nec iam audet fatis turbata obsistere coniunx.

     • 2004 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

       From all hands the crowd of deities urge their tardy chief, gnashing their teeth and demanding weapons of vengeance, nor does his cowed consort dare longer to obstruct the Fates.

   • c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 2.423:

     Ipsa, pyram super ingentem stans, saucia Dido
     mandabat Tyriis ultricia bella futuris;
     ardentemque rogum media spectabat ab unda
     Dardanus et magnis pandebat carbasa fatis.

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   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Medea 1.13:

     nunc, nunc adeste, sceleris ultrices deae, crinem solutis squalidae serpentibus, atram cruentis manibus amplexae facem

     Now, now be present, you goddesses, you avengeresses of crime; come with your hair adorned with loose, squalid serpents, come embracing the black torch with your blood-stained hands.

Third-declension one-termination adjective (feminine-only in the singular, feminine- and neuter-only in the plural).

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