persecutrix

Learned borrowing from Latin persecūtrīx. First attested in 1559–1566. By surface analysis, persecute +‎ -trix.

• enPR: pûr′sĭ-kyo͞o′trĭks
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜː.sɪˈkjuː.tɹɪks/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜɹ.sɪˈkju.tɹɪks/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜː.sɪˈkjʉː.tɹɪks/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌpøː.səˈkjʉː.tɹəks/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛɹ.sɪˈkjʉ.tɹɪks/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜː(ɾ).sɪˈkjuː.tɾɪks/, /ˌpɛɾ.sɪˈkjuː.tɾɪks/, /ˌpəɾ.sɪˈkjuː.tɾɪks/
• Rhymes: -uːtɹɪks
• Hyphenation: per‧se‧cu‧trix

persecutrix (plural persecutrices)

1. (rare) A female persecutor.

   Synonym: persecutress

   • 1559–1566, John Knox, The History of the Reformation in Scotland; republished as Laing, David, editor, The Works of John Knox, volume 1, Edinburgh: James Thin, 1895, page 244:

     […] Jesabel, […] ; a cruell persecutrix of Goddis people, […].

   • 1861, Cornelia Knight, Autobiography:

     She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.

   • 1868, Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name:

     ...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.

• “persecutrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• “persecutrix”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From persecūtus + -trīx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛr.sɛˈkuː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [per.seˈkuː.triks]
• Hyphenation: per‧se‧cū‧trīx

persecūtrīx f (genitive persecūtrīcis, masculine persecūtor); third declension

1. female equivalent of persecūtor
   • 354 CE – 430 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, De consensu evangelistarum 1.25

Third-declension noun.

• “persĕcūtrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• persecūtrīx in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1636
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “persecutrix”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “persecutrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1159.