tutrix

Latin tūtrīx

tutrix (plural tutrixes or tutrices)

1. (obsolete) A female tutor (teacher).
2. (Quebec law) A female tutor (person other than a parent having charge of a child or other person requiring protection).

• tutoress

From tueor +‎ -trīx.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.triːks/, [ˈt̪uːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.triks/, [ˈt̪uːt̪riks]

tūtrīx f (genitive tūtrīcis, masculine tūtor); third declension

1. a female guardian; tutrix

Third-declension noun.

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