vastatrix

== Latin == === Etymology === From vāstō, vāstātum (“lay waste to, destroy”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [waːsˈtaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vasˈtaː.triks] === Noun === vāstātrīx f (genitive vāstātrīcis, masculine vāstātor); third declension destroyer, ravager (female) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “vastatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vastatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.