adjective · feminine
silvicultrīx
silvicultrīx f
Classical[sɪɫ.wɪˈkʊɫ.triːks]Ecclesiastical[sil.viˈkul.triks]
Meaning
- that lives in the woods
Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are? Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.71–73Hinc se ergo contra silvicultrices feras / Bellator infert
Thus, from here on the combatant rushes against the forest-dwelling wild animals1778, François Joseph Terrasse Desbillons, Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus omnes ferè emendatae: quibus accesserunt plus quam clxx novae. Sexta editio, page 238:
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | silvicultrīx | — |
| genitive | — | silvicultrīcis | — |
| dative | — | silvicultrīcī | — |
| accusative | — | silvicultrīcem | — |
| ablative | — | silvicultrīce silvicultrīcī | — |
| vocative | — | silvicultrīx | — |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | silvicultrīcēs | — |
| genitive | — | silvicultrīcium silvicultrīcum | — |
| dative | — | silvicultrīcibus | — |
| accusative | — | silvicultrīcēs | — |
| ablative | — | silvicultrīcibus | — |
| vocative | — | silvicultrīcēs | — |
silvĭ-cultrix (sylv-), īcis,
I. adj. f. [silva], living in the woods:
cerva, Cat. 63, 72.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
silvicultrīx īcis, adj. f
silva+COL-, living in the woods : cerva, Ct.
Origins
From silva (“wood(s), forest”) + cultrīx f (“dweller, inhabitant”), from colō, cultum (“inhabit, dwell”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).