inventrix

English

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Etymology

From the Latin inventrīx.

Pronunciation

Noun

inventrix (plural inventrices)

  1. (archaic or often derogatory) A female that invents.
    • 1673: Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, “Trouveuſe”
      Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.
    • 1997: Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, and Burkhard Riemschneider [eds.], Kippenberger, page 218 (Taschen; →ISBN, 9783822878675)
      Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress

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Latin

Etymology

inveniō (“I discover”) +‎ -trīx

Noun

inventrīx f (genitive inventrīcis); third declension

  1. An inventrix; a female inventor

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative inventrīx inventrīcēs
Genitive inventrīcis inventrīcum
Dative inventrīcī inventrīcibus
Accusative inventrīcem inventrīcēs
Ablative inventrīce inventrīcibus
Vocative inventrīx inventrīcēs

Descendants

References
  • inventrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inventrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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