protectrix

From Middle English protectrice, protectrix, protectryse, from Latin prōtēctrīx. By surface analysis, protect +‎ -trix.

protectrix (plural protectrices)

1. (archaic) A female who protects; a protectress.

• “protectrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From prōtegō, prōtēctum (“to cover”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

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

prōtēctrīx f (genitive prōtēctrīcis, masculine prōtēctor); third declension

1. female equivalent of prōtēctor

Third-declension noun.

• French: protectrice
• Italian: protettrice
• Spanish: protectriz

• protectrix, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011