bellatrix

See also: Bellatrix

Latin

Etymology

From bellō, bellātum (“to wage or carry out war”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bellātrīx f (genitive bellātrīcis, masculine bellātor); third declension

1. a warrior woman, female warrior
2. (in apposition) warlike

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bellātrīx	bellātrīcēs
genitive	bellātrīcis	bellātrīcum
dative	bellātrīcī	bellātrīcibus
accusative	bellātrīcem	bellātrīcēs
ablative	bellātrīce	bellātrīcibus
vocative	bellātrīx	bellātrīcēs

Related terms

• bellicōsus
• bellicum
• bellicus
• belliger
• belligerō

Adjective

bellātrīx (feminine bellātrīx); third-declension defective adjective (feminine-only when singular, feminine or neuter when plural)

1. warlike
   • 1573, Jacobus Yetzweirtius, Aldenardias, sive de Subdola ac Furtiva Guesiorum in Civitatem Aldenardensem Irreptione...‎^[1], Ghent:

     Hic(ait)est Deus, ille Deus, fero ab hoste redemptũ
     Qui genus Israel, rubei per gurgitis aequor
     Duxit, in obsequium sese findentibus vndis
     Inque locum Pharium fluctu coëunte Tyrannum
     Et currus, et equos, et bellatricia mersit
     Agmina, et iniusti fregit molimina Regis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension defective adjective (feminine-only when singular, feminine or neuter when plural).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	—	bellātrīx	—		—	bellātrīcēs	bellātrīcia
genitive	—	bellātrīcis	—		—	bellātrīcium
dative	—	bellātrīcī	—		—	bellātrīcibus
accusative	—	bellātrīcem	—		—	bellātrīcēs	bellātrīcia
ablative	—	bellātrīce bellātrīcī	—		—	bellātrīcibus
vocative	—	bellātrīx	—		—	bellātrīcēs	bellātrīcia

References

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