formatrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin fōrmātrīx. By surface analysis, form +‎ -ate +‎ -trix. === Noun === formatrix (plural formatrixes or formatrices) (obsolete) A formative faculty. === References === “formatrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. “formatrix, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. == Latin == === Etymology === From fōrmō + -trīx. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [foːrˈmaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [forˈmaː.triks] Hyphenation: fōr‧mā‧trīx === Noun === fōrmātrīx f (genitive fōrmātrīcis, masculine fōrmātor); third declension female equivalent of fōrmātor ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Further reading === “formātrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press fōrmātrīx in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2817 R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “formatrix”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “formatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 680. "FORMATRIX", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)