tutrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin tūtrīx. By surface analysis, tutor +‎ -trix. === Noun === tutrix (plural tutrixes or tutrices) (obsolete) A female tutor (teacher). (Quebec law) A female tutor (person other than a parent having charge of a child or other person requiring protection). ==== Synonyms ==== tutoress === References === “tutrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From tueor (“to look or gaze at”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.triks] === Noun === tūtrīx f (genitive tūtrīcis, masculine tūtor); third declension a female guardian; tutrix ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Spanish: tutriz === References === “tutrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tutrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.