oratrix
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin
Noun
oratrix (plural oratrixes or oratrices)
- (obsolete) A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oratrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Noun
ōrātrīx f (genitive ōrātrīcis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ōrātrīx | ōrātrīcēs |
| Genitive | ōrātrīcis | ōrātrīcum |
| Dative | ōrātrīcī | ōrātrīcibus |
| Accusative | ōrātrīcem | ōrātrīcēs |
| Ablative | ōrātrīce | ōrātrīcibus |
| Vocative | ōrātrīx | ōrātrīcēs |
Descendants
References
- “oratrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “oratrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- oratrix 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)
- oratrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.