administratrix

English

Etymology

From New Latin administrātrīx.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ædˌmɪnɪsˈtɹeɪˌtɹɪks/

Noun

administratrix (plural administratrices or administratrixes)

  1. A female administrator. [from 16th c.]
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 24
      The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.

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