creatrix Latin · revision 9804

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucretius|origins=la creō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kreˈaː.triːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kreˈaː.triks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''creātrīx''' ''f'' (genitive creātrīcis, masculine creātor); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|creō|-trīx|t1=to create]], the feminine of [[creātor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨creō⟩ as [[itc-pro|*krē-jā-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Lucretius, ''nātūra creātrīx'' “nature the creatress”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Poetic, it meant she who brings forth, a mother, as in Virgil; the creatress of the world, as nature in Lucretius; and the authoress of a situation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a progenitress, figuratively, and in philosophy and theology for a creatress, creative.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of nature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a mother.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|mother]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A creatress (of the world); an authoress (of a situation).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[creābilis]]

+ * [[creāmen]]

+ * [[creātiō]]

+ * [[creātor]]

+ * [[creātūra]]

+ * [[creō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}