altrix

== Latin == === Etymology === From alō, altum (“to encourage or promote the development (of a thing)”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaɫ.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈal.triks] === Noun === altrīx f (genitive altrīcis, masculine altor); third declension nourisher, cherisher, sustainer (female) wetnurse / wet-nurse / wet nurse foster mother motherland ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: altricial === Adjective === altrīx (feminine altrīx); third-declension defective adjective (feminine-only when singular, feminine or neuter when plural) nourishing ==== Declension ==== Third-declension defective adjective (feminine-only when singular, feminine or neuter when plural). === References === “altrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “altrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “altrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “altrīx” in volume 1, column 1770, line 58 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present