creatrix

English

Etymology

From Latin creātrīx. Equivalent to create +‎ -trix.

Noun

creatrix (plural creatrixes or creatrices)

1. (rare) A female creator.

Latin

Etymology

From creātor (“creator, author, founder”), from creō (“create, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kreˈaː.triːks/, [kreˈäːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreˈa.triks/, [kreˈäːt̪riks]

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	creātrīx	creātrīcēs
Genitive	creātrīcis	creātrīcum
Dative	creātrīcī	creātrīcibus
Accusative	creātrīcem	creātrīcēs
Ablative	creātrīce	creātrīcibus
Vocative	creātrīx	creātrīcēs

Related terms

• creābilis
• creāmen
• creātiō
• creātor
• creātūra
• creō

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’s 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.