apostatrix

Latin

Etymology

From apostata (“apostate”) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix) or from apostatō, apostatātum (“to apostatize”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), with haplology simplifying -tatā- to -tā-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.pɔsˈtaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.posˈtaː.triks]

Noun

apostātrīx f (genitive apostātrīcis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) apostate (female)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apostātrīx	apostātrīcēs
genitive	apostātrīcis	apostātrīcum
dative	apostātrīcī	apostātrīcibus
accusative	apostātrīcem	apostātrīcēs
ablative	apostātrīce	apostātrīcibus
vocative	apostātrīx	apostātrīcēs

References

• “apostatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apostatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.