indagatrix
English
Etymology
From Latin indāgātrīx, feminine form of indāgātor (“investigator”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪndəˈɡeɪtɹɪks/
Noun
indagatrix (plural indagatrices)
- (obsolete, rare) A female investigator; a searcheress.
- 1653, Richard Sanders, Physiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled, page 269:
- The soul, the indigatrix of all things.
Related terms
References
- The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.daːˈɡaː.triːks/, [ɪn̪d̪äːˈɡäːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.daˈɡa.triks/, [in̪d̪äˈɡäːt̪riks]
Noun
indāgātrīx f (genitive indāgātrīcis); third declension
- female equivalent of indāgātor (“investigator, researcher”)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “indagatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “indagatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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