-trixsuffix

Primary stress is never attracted to this suffix.

Etymology: Ending of Latin feminine agent-nouns (with stems in -trīc- , accusative -tricem , whence French -trice : see -trice suffix), corresponding to masculines in -tor, as adjūtrix female helper, bellātrix female warrior, imperātrix female commander, empress, inventrix female discoverer, vēnātrix huntress, etc.; sometimes used adjectively, as victrix victorious, ultrix avenging.

Several of these nouns were adopted in English, from ancient or medieval Latin, in the 15th cent. and later, as administratrix n., consolatrix n., creatrix n., executrix n., mediatrix n., persecutrix n., testatrix n., etc.; and others formed on the analogy of them, as inheritrix n., narratrix n., perpetratrix n., etc. In Geometry, words in -trix denote straight lines (linea being understood), as bisectrix n., directrix n.; more rarely curves or surfaces, as indicatrix n., tractrix n. The suffix has occasionally been loosely used to form nonce-feminines to agent-nouns in -ter, as paintrix n. instead of the regular paintress. The commoner suffix in English is -tress suffix: see also -trice suffix.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	-trix
释义	-trixsuffix Primary stress is never attracted to this suffix. Etymology: Ending of Latin feminine agent-nouns (with stems in -trīc- , accusative -tricem , whence French -trice : see -trice suffix), corresponding to masculines in -tor, as adjūtrix female helper, bellātrix female warrior, imperātrix female commander, empress, inventrix female discoverer, vēnātrix huntress, etc.; sometimes used adjectively, as victrix victorious, ultrix avenging. Several of these nouns were adopted in English, from ancient or medieval Latin, in the 15th cent. and later, as administratrix n., consolatrix n., creatrix n., executrix n., mediatrix n., persecutrix n., testatrix n., etc.; and others formed on the analogy of them, as inheritrix n., narratrix n., perpetratrix n., etc. In Geometry, words in -trix denote straight lines (linea being understood), as bisectrix n., directrix n.; more rarely curves or surfaces, as indicatrix n., tractrix n. The suffix has occasionally been loosely used to form nonce-feminines to agent-nouns in -ter, as paintrix n. instead of the regular paintress. The commoner suffix in English is -tress suffix: see also -trice suffix. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < suffix
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