Viria Acte was born in Valencia Edetanorum, current Valencia, ca. 90 AD. She was an outstanding woman who, being a former slave, became a successful entrepreneur. She was the owner of a statue workshop that she run herself and that became very prestigious. She received many compliments and honours due to her work and her contributions to the city of Valencia. 

She is not the only woman that we are aware of. Epigraphy has allowed us to know of many other women from the same period and others, what they did and where they were born or lived. They are spread throughout the Hispanic territory. 
  
1- Using the information given in the table, extract all professions containing the suffix -trix and copy them. 

TABLE

2- What activity does each one of them refer to? To answer this question, check the table below. 

PROFESSIONS

3- Keeping in mind that -trix is the feminine version of -tor, answer: 
 
- What would be the masculine form of sarcinatrix and ornatrix? 

- What would be the feminine form of operator, pistor and pictor? 
 
ATTENTION 
 
The suffix -tor is used for creating masculine agent nouns, that means that it is used for the one who carries out an action. Our language has a similar one: -er or -or. The suffix -trix is used to create feminine agent nouns. In English, the suffix -trix is mostly dated, and it is more common to find words ending in -ess with a similar meaning. 

4- Find some other English words ending in -ess. 

5- Match the columns.  

6- What words from the previous exercise are not the feminine version anymore of their corresponding masculine, but have a complete different meaning?  

7- Find the definition of those words and write them down.