speculatrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin speculātrīx. By surface analysis, speculate +‎ -trix. === Noun === speculatrix A female speculator. === References === “speculatrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From speculor, speculātum (“to watch, to observe”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [spɛ.kʊˈɫaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [spe.kuˈlaː.triks] === Noun === speculātrīx f (genitive speculātrīcis, masculine speculātor); third declension a (female) watcher or spy ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “speculatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “speculatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “speculatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.