carnifex

From Latin carnifex (“butcher”)

carnifex (plural carnifexes)

1. (rare, literary) An executioner.
2. (rare, literary) A butcher.

• carnufex

From carni(s) (“flesh”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ni.feks/, [ˈkar.nɪ.fɛks]

carnifex m (genitive carnificis); third declension

1. butcher, knacker (one who slaughters and renders worn-out livestock)[1]
2. executioner, hangman
3. tormenter, murderer
4. scoundrel, villain

Third declension.

• Italian: carnefice
• Portuguese: carnífice
• Spanish: carnífice

• carnifex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carnifex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carnifex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• carnifex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• carnifex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin