pugnatrix

Latin

Etymology

From pūgnō, pūgnātum (“to fight”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

pūgnātrīx f (genitive pūgnātrīcis, masculine pugnātor); third declension

  1. Female fighter or combatant.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pūgnātrīx pūgnātrīcēs
genitive pūgnātrīcis pūgnātrīcum
dative pūgnātrīcī pūgnātrīcibus
accusative pūgnātrīcem pūgnātrīcēs
ablative pūgnātrīce pūgnātrīcibus
vocative pūgnātrīx pūgnātrīcēs

Descendants

  • Old Italian: pugnatrice

References

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