See auctrix on Wiktionary
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"english": "Tradition will be held forth to you as the originator of them, custom as their strengthener, and faith as their observer.",
"ref": "211-212, Tertullian, De corona, pages 4–5:",
"text": "Traditio tibi prætendetur auctrix, consuetudo confirmatrix, et fides observatrix.",
"translation": "Tradition will be held forth to you as the originator of them, custom as their strengthener, and faith as their observer.",
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"english": "Eve was the authoress of sin, Mary the authoress of merit. Eve injured us by giving death, Mary benefits us by giving life. The one wounded, the other healed.",
"ref": "c. 400, Augustine of Hippo, In festo Assumptionis B. Mariæ:",
"text": "Auctrix peccati Eva ; auctrix meriti Maria. Eva occidendo obfuit ; Maria vivificando profuit. Illa percussit ; ista sanavit.",
"translation": "Eve was the authoress of sin, Mary the authoress of merit. Eve injured us by giving death, Mary benefits us by giving life. The one wounded, the other healed.",
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"english": "Hail Mary, originator of life",
"ref": "1175-1190, Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia, page 110:",
"text": "Ave Maria, o auctrix vitae",
"translation": "Hail Mary, originator of life",
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"glosses": [
"a female originator"
],
"links": [
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"originator",
"originator"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(Late Latin) a female originator"
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"tags": [
"Late-Latin",
"declension-3"
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"ipa": "[ˈau̯k.triːks]",
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"Classical-Latin"
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{
"ipa": "[ˈau̯k.triks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "auctrix"
}
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