dominatrix

From Latin dominatrix.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɒmɪˈneɪtɹɪks/[1]

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dominatrix (plural dominatrices or dominatrixes)

1. A dominating woman; a female dominator.[1]
2. A dominant female in sadomasochistic practices.[1]
   • 2003, Lora Shaner, Madam: Inside a Nevada Brothel (page 296)

     Shadowy masked dominatrixes in stiletto-heeled hip boots snap commands and whips with equal fury.

   • 2006, Russell Campbell, Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema (page 226)

     But even as movies depicting successful madams, freelance hookers, and dominatrices were celebrating prostitution as a marketplace expression of the new sexual freedom, doubts were emerging, a backlash growing.

   • 2010, H. A. Carson, A Roaring Girl: An Interview with the Thinking Man's Hooker (page 134)

     I've always maintained that the dominatrix is as much a misogynistic caricature as the virginal, asexual "good" girl or the disgusting "nymphomaniac/slut." The so-called dominant woman is a dark, eerie version of the woman on a pedestal.

• domina
• domme

• humiliatrix

• admonitrix

From dominātor +‎ -trīx.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /do.miˈnaː.triːks/, [d̪ɔmɪˈnäːt̪riːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /do.miˈna.triks/, [d̪omiˈnäːt̪riks]

dominātrīx f (genitive dominātrīcis, masculine dominātor); third declension

1. a (female) ruler
2. a mistress

Third-declension noun.

• “dominatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dominatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• Hyphenation: do‧mi‧na‧trix

dominatrix f (plural dominatrixes)

1. dominatrix

dominatrix f (plural dominatrix)

1. dominatrix