Category:Latin terms suffixed with -trix

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. adulatrix
  2. pollutrix
  3. aversatrix
  4. exasperatrix
  5. investigatrix
  6. medicatrix
  7. piscatrix
  8. holitrix
  9. olitrix
  10. matrix
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. generatrix
  2. actrix
  3. testatrix
  4. dominatrix
  5. meretrix
  6. tutrix
  7. amatrix
  8. imperatrix
  9. indagatrix
  10. fututrix

Latin terms ending with the suffix -trīx.

Terms are placed in this category using {{af|la|base|-trix}} or {{affix|la|base|-trix}} (or the more specific and less-preferred equivalents {{suf}} or {{suffix}}), where base is the base lemma from which this term is derived.


The suffixes -tor (masculine), -trix (feminine), -trum (neuter) and -torius, -a, -um (adjective) are used with the supine stems of verbs to form nouns denoting the agent of an action, as in arator, aratrix, aratrum and aratorius, -a, -um (< aratum < aro). Other instrument noun suffixes are -bra, -brum, -bula, -bulum, -crum, -culum, -tōrium.

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