cantrix

From Latin cantrīx.

cantrix (plural cantrices)

1. (archaic) A female singer.

   Synonyms: chanteuse, chantress, (obsolete, rare) singeress, songstress

• cantor
• cantorate
• chant

From canō, cantum (“to sing”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan̪.t̪riks]

cantrīx f (genitive cantrīcis, masculine cantor); third declension

1. songstress, singer (female)
2. player (female)

Third-declension noun.

• cantor

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