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

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

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.
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