inventrix
English
Alternative forms
- inuentrix [17th century]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks, IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/
Noun
inventrix (plural inventrices)
- (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
- 1673: Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, “Trouveuſe”
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
a female that invents
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Latin
Declension
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | inventrīx | inventrīcēs |
Genitive | inventrīcis | inventrīcum |
Dative | inventrīcī | inventrīcibus |
Accusative | inventrīcem | inventrīcēs |
Ablative | inventrīce | inventrīcibus |
Vocative | inventrīx | inventrīcēs |
Descendants
- English: inventrix
- French: inventrice
- Italian: inventrice
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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