The corpus record — Latin

rectrix

rectrix · f

she that leads

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rectrix — Lewis & Short

rectrix, īcis, f.rector,

I she that leads or guides; a directress, governess, mistress (post-Aug.): animam velut aurigam rectricemque membrorum, Col. 3, 10, 9: sapientia domina rectrixque est, Sen. Ep. 85, 32: Italia rectrix parensque mundi altera, Plin. 37, 13, 77, § 201.

In the wild

rectricemque Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.10.9
rectrixque Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.85.32
rectrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.13.p3

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.