tutrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tūtrīx. By surface analysis, tutor +‎ -trix.

Noun

tutrix (plural tutrixes or tutrices)

1. (obsolete) A female tutor (teacher).
2. (Quebec law) A female tutor (person other than a parent having charge of a child or other person requiring protection).

Synonyms

• tutoress

References

• “tutrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology

From tueor (“to look or gaze at”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tūtrīx f (genitive tūtrīcis, masculine tūtor); third declension

1. a female guardian; tutrix

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tūtrīx	tūtrīcēs
genitive	tūtrīcis	tūtrīcum
dative	tūtrīcī	tūtrīcibus
accusative	tūtrīcem	tūtrīcēs
ablative	tūtrīce	tūtrīcibus
vocative	tūtrīx	tūtrīcēs

Descendants

• → Spanish: tutriz

References

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