auctrix
English
Noun
auctrix (plural not attested)
- (medicine, archaic) A class of natural faculty.
- 1826, “Article XII. – Retrospective Review. – Tractatus de Ventriculo et Intestinis, cui præmittitur alius…”, in The North American Medical and Surgical Journal, page 145:
- Under the class of natural faculties, we find three principal sorts; to wit, a facultas generatrix, an auctrix, and a nutrix.
Latin
Alternative forms
- authrīx, autrīx
Etymology
Derived from auctor, from Latin auctus, perfect passive participle of augeō (“to increase, nourish”). By surface analysis, auc(tor) (“originator”) + -trīx (“-ess, -rix”, feminine agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯k.triːks/, [ˈäu̯kt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯k.triks/, [ˈäu̯kt̪riks]
Noun
auctrīx f (genitive auctrīcis, masculine auctor); third declension
- (Late Latin) a female originator
- 211-212, Tertullian, De corona, pages 4–5:
- Traditio tibi prætendetur auctrix, consuetudo confirmatrix, et fides observatrix.
- Tradition will be held forth to you as the originator of them, custom as their strengthener, and faith as their observer.
- c. 400, Augustine of Hippo, In festo Assumptionis B. Mariæ:
- Auctrix peccati Eva ; auctrix meriti Maria. Eva occidendo obfuit ; Maria vivificando profuit. Illa percussit ; ista sanavit.
- Eve was the authoress of sin, Mary the authoress of merit. Eve injured us by giving death, Mary benefits us by giving life. The one wounded, the other healed.
- 1175-1190, Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia, page 110:
- Ave Maria, o auctrix vitae
- Hail Mary, originator of life
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | auctrīx | auctrīcēs |
| Genitive | auctrīcis | auctrīcum |
| Dative | auctrīcī | auctrīcibus |
| Accusative | auctrīcem | auctrīcēs |
| Ablative | auctrīce | auctrīcibus |
| Vocative | auctrīx | auctrīcēs |
Descendants
References
- “auctrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- auctrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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