ambestrix

== Latin == === Etymology === From ambedō, ambēsum (“to eat or gnaw around, to waste”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [amˈbeːs.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [amˈbɛs.triks] === Noun === ambēstrīx f (genitive ambēstrīcis, masculine ambēsor); third declension a (female) consumer ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “ambestrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ambestrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.