commendatrix

== Latin == === Etymology === From commendō, commendātum (“to commend”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔm.mɛnˈdaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kom.menˈdaː.triks] === Noun === commendātrīx f (genitive commendātrīcis, masculine commendātor); third declension (rare) that which commends Synonym: commendātor ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “commendatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “commendatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers