vulgatrix

From vulgō, vulgātum (“to make known, public”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

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

vulgātrīx f (genitive vulgātrīcis, masculine vulgātor); third declension

1. female divulger; woman who divulges, makes known, publicizes

   Julia Balbilla vulgatrix multarum fabularum quae loquuntur eius peregrationes in Aegypto cum Hadriano Imperatore

   Julia Balbilla is the divulger of many tales which recount her travels in Egypt with Emperor Hadrian.

   • 1570, Bernhard Moller, Rhenus et eius descriptio elegans, a primis fontibus usque ad oceanum Germanicum ubi vrbes, castra, & pagi adiacentes, item flumina & riuuli in hunc influentes, & ſi quid praetereà memorabile occurrat plenissimè carmine elegiaco depingitur‎^[1] (quotation in Latin; overall work in Latin), page 127:

     Cenſuit indignum vulgatrix nomine Fama Cuius ab ingenio crimen & ira venit.

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Third-declension noun.

• vulgātor