creatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin creātrīx. By surface analysis, create +‎ -trix.

creatrix (plural creatrixes or creatrices)

1. (rare) A female creator.

From creō, creātum (“create, make”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

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

creātrīx f (genitive creātrīcis, masculine creātor); third declension

1. A female who brings forth or produces; a mother.
2. A female founder, authoress, creatrix.

Third-declension noun.

• → English: creatrix
• → French: créatrice
• → Italian: creatrice

• “creatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "creatrix", 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)
• creatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.