silvicultrix
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See also: Silvicultrix
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sil.u̯iˈkul.triːks/, [s̠ɪɫ̪u̯ɪˈkʊɫ̪t̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sil.viˈkul.triks/, [silviˈkul̪t̪riks]
Adjective[edit]
silvicultrīx (genitive silvicultrīcis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (hapax) that lives in the woods
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.71–73:
- Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
Iam, iam dolet quod ēgī, iam, iamque paenitet.- I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are?
Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.
- I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
- Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
Declension[edit]
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | silvicultrīx | silvicultrīcēs | silvicultrīcia | ||
| Genitive | silvicultrīcis | silvicultrīcium | |||
| Dative | silvicultrīcī | silvicultrīcibus | |||
| Accusative | silvicultrīcem | silvicultrīx | silvicultrīcēs | silvicultrīcia | |
| Ablative | silvicultrīcī | silvicultrīcibus | |||
| Vocative | silvicultrīx | silvicultrīcēs | silvicultrīcia | ||
References[edit]
- “silvicultrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silvicultrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silvicultrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.