fautrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fautrīx. By surface analysis, fautor +‎ -trix.

Noun

fautrix (plural fautrices)

1. (obsolete) A patroness.

Synonyms

• fautress

References

• “fautrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂weh₁yetider.?

Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰew-der.?

Latin faveō, fautum

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 fautrīx

From faveō, fautum (“to be favorable”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfau̯.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːu̯.triks]

Noun

fautrīx f (genitive fautrīcis, masculine fautor); third declension

1. patroness, protectress

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fautrīx	fautrīcēs
genitive	fautrīcis	fautrīcum
dative	fautrīcī	fautrīcibus
accusative	fautrīcem	fautrīcēs
ablative	fautrīce	fautrīcibus
vocative	fautrīx	fautrīcēs

Related terms

• fautor

References

• “fautrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fautrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fautrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunam fautricem nancisci