The corpus record — Latin

debitrix

debitrix · f

a female debtor

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Where it lives

De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

dēbĭtrix — Lewis & Short

dēbĭtrix, īcis, f.debitor,

I a female debtor (post-class.).

I Lit.: mulier, Dig. 16, 1, 24: fisci, ib. 49, 14, 47.—

II Trop.: omnium delictorum debitrix anima est, the guilty cause, Tert. Anim. 35.

In the wild

debitricem Tertullian, De Scorpiace 8
debitrix Tertullian, De Anima 35

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.