Latin

Noun

interfectrīx f ‎(genitive interfectrīcis); third declension

1. a murderess
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:9

     ergo cum pro culpa sua increparet puellam respondit ei dicens amplius ex te non videamus filium aut filiam super terram interfectrix virorum tuorum (So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.)

Inflection

Third declension.

See also

• interfector

References

• interfectrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• interfectrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “interfectrix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.