oratrix

English

Etymology

Noun

oratrix (plural oratrixes or oratrices)

(obsolete) A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for oratrix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

orātrīx f (genitive orātrīcis); third declension

A female orator, a female speaker

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	orātrīx	orātrīcēs
Genitive	orātrīcis	orātrīcum
Dative	orātrīcī	orātrīcibus
Accusative	orātrīcem	orātrīcēs
Ablative	orātrīce	orātrīcibus
Vocative	orātrīx	orātrīcēs

Descendants

English: oratrix
French: oratrice
Italian: oratrice

Portuguese: oradora
Spanish: oratriz, oradora

References

oratrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
oratrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
oratrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
oratrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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