conservatrix
English
Etymology
Noun
conservatrix (plural conservatrices)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “conservatrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.serˈu̯aː.triːks/, [kõːs̠ɛrˈu̯äːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.serˈva.triks/, [konserˈväːt̪riks]
Noun
cōnservātrīx f (genitive cōnservātrīcis, masculine cōnservātor); third declension
- she who preserves or defends, protectress
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnservātrīx | cōnservātrīcēs |
Genitive | cōnservātrīcis | cōnservātrīcum |
Dative | cōnservātrīcī | cōnservātrīcibus |
Accusative | cōnservātrīcem | cōnservātrīcēs |
Ablative | cōnservātrīce | cōnservātrīcibus |
Vocative | cōnservātrīx | cōnservātrīcēs |
References
- “conservatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conservatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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