copulatrix

Latin

Etymology

From cōpulō, cōpulātum (“to bind or tie together”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koː.pʊˈɫaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.puˈlaː.t̪riks]

Noun

cōpulātrīx f (genitive cōpulātrīcis, masculine cōpulātor); third declension

1. connector (female)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōpulātrīx	cōpulātrīcēs
genitive	cōpulātrīcis	cōpulātrīcum
dative	cōpulātrīcī	cōpulātrīcibus
accusative	cōpulātrīcem	cōpulātrīcēs
ablative	cōpulātrīce	cōpulātrīcibus
vocative	cōpulātrīx	cōpulātrīcēs

Derived terms

• bursa copulatrix

References

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