auctrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin auctrīx. === Noun === auctrix (plural not attested) (medicine, archaic) A class of natural faculty. === References === “auctrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Alternative forms === authrīx, autrīx === Etymology === From augeō, auctum (“to increase, nourish”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈau̯k.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈau̯k.triks] === Noun === auctrīx f (genitive auctrīcis, masculine auctor); third declension (Late Latin) a female originator ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: autrice Middle English: auctrice, auctrix English: auctrix, authrix Middle French: actrixe, auctrice, auctrixe, authrice French: autrice, auctrice Dutch: autrice === References === “auctrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “auctrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.