fornicatrix - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Latin fornicātrīx.
fornicatrix (plural fornicatrices)
- A female fornicator.
1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 524:
She would be a what was it…a fornicatress?…trix! Fornicatrix is preferable! Very preferable.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /for.niˈkaː.triːks/, [fɔrnɪˈkäːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /for.niˈka.triks/, [forniˈkäːt̪riks]
fornicātrīx f (genitive fornicātrīcis, masculine fornicātor); third declension
- fornicator (female), whore
- prostitute
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fornicātrīx | fornicātrīcēs |
| Genitive | fornicātrīcis | fornicātrīcum |
| Dative | fornicātrīcī | fornicātrīcibus |
| Accusative | fornicātrīcem | fornicātrīcēs |
| Ablative | fornicātrīce | fornicātrīcibus |
| Vocative | fornicātrīx | fornicātrīcēs |
- “fornicatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fornicatrix 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)
- fornicatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.