imperatrix

Latin imperatrix. Doublet of empress.

imperatrix (plural imperatrices)

1. (historical or archaic) feminine equivalent of imperator; empress
   • 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies‎, →ISBN, page 307:

     When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world.

• imperator (masculine of imperatrix)

• inperātrīx

From imperō (“to command, order”) +‎ -trīx. Compare imperātor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.peˈraː.triːks/, [ɪm.pɛˈraː.triːks]

imperātrīx f (genitive imperātrīcis); third declension

1. A female ruler of an empire, empress.

Third declension.

• English: empress
• French: impératrice
• Italian: imperatrice
• Portuguese: imperatriz
• Russian: императрица (imperatrica)
• Spanish: emperatriz

• imperatrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imperatrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imperatrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• imperatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette