confectrix

== Latin == === Etymology === From cōnficiō, cōnfectum (“to prepare”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈfɛk.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɱˈfɛk.triks] === Noun === cōnfectrīx f (genitive cōnfectrīcis, masculine cōnfector); third declension one who destroys, a destroyer ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “confectrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “confectrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.