creatrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin creātrīx. By surface analysis, create +‎ -trix.

Noun

creatrix (plural creatrixes or creatrices)

  1. (rare) A female creator.

Synonyms

References

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic [Term?]
Latin creō, creātum
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *-trih₂
Proto-Italic *-trīks
Latin -trīx f
Latin creātrīx

    From creō, creātum (“create, make”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    creātrīx f (genitive creātrīcis, masculine creātor); third declension

    1. A female who brings forth or produces; a mother.
    2. A female founder, authoress, creatrix.

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative creātrīx creātrīcēs
    genitive creātrīcis creātrīcum
    dative creātrīcī creātrīcibus
    accusative creātrīcem creātrīcēs
    ablative creātrīce creātrīcibus
    vocative creātrīx creātrīcēs

    Descendants

    • → English: creatrix
    • → French: créatrice
    • → Italian: creatrice

    References

    • “creatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “creatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "creatrix", 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)
    • “creatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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