educatrix

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ēducō, ēducātum

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 ēducātrīx

From ēducō, ēducātum (“to bring up”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.dʊˈkaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.duˈkaː.triks]

Noun

ēducātrīx f (genitive ēducātrīcis, masculine ēducātor); third declension

1. nurse (of a child)
2. foster mother
3. tutor, teacher (female)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēducātrīx	ēducātrīcēs
genitive	ēducātrīcis	ēducātrīcum
dative	ēducātrīcī	ēducātrīcibus
accusative	ēducātrīcem	ēducātrīcēs
ablative	ēducātrīce	ēducātrīcibus
vocative	ēducātrīx	ēducātrīcēs

References

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