-trix
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- A female that is connected with a specified thing:
女性…者：与特定事物有关的女性：
testatrix.
立有遗嘱的女人 - A geometric point, line, or surface:
几何学中的点、线或面：
directrix.
准线
语源
- Middle English
中古英语 - from Latin -trīx [feminine of] -tor [noun suff]
源自 拉丁语 -trīx [] -tor的阴性词 [名词后缀]
-trix
suffix forming nouns
indicating a feminine agent, corresponding to nouns ending in -tor ⇒
executrix
Origin
from Latin-trix
Word Origin
1
a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it formed feminine nouns or adjectives corresponding to agent nouns ending in -tor, (Bellatrix). On this model, -trix, is used in English to form feminine nouns (aviatrix; executrix) and geometrical terms denoting straight lines (directrix).
Also, -trice.
Origin
< Latin -trīx, stem -trīc-
Usage note
A suffix borrowed directly from Latin, -trix has been used since the 15th century on feminine agent nouns that correspond to a masculine (in Latin) or generic (in English) agent noun ending in -tor: aviator, aviatrix; legislator, legislatrix; orator, oratrix. Most nouns in -trix have dropped from general use, so that terms like aviatrix, benefactrix, legislatrix, oratrix, and proprietrix occur rarely or not at all in present-day English. The forms in -tor are applied to both men and women: Her sister is the proprietor of a new restaurant. When relevant, sex is specified with the generic term: Amelia Earhart was a pioneer woman aviator. Legal documents still use administratrix, executrix, inheritrix, and the like, but these forms too are giving way to the -tor forms. See also -enne, -ess, -ette.
Related Words
- -trice
- administratrix
- aviatrix
- benefactrix
- directrix
- executrix
-trixa suffix of feminine agent-nouns, as in executrix.
Compare -or2. [Latin]
-trix
noun suffix
(plural -trices or -trixes)
aviatrix
2. geometric line, point, or surface
generatrix
noun suffix
(plural -trices or -trixes)
ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Latin, feminine of -tor, suffix denoting an agent
1. female that does or is associated with a (specified) thingaviatrix
2. geometric line, point, or surface
generatrix
-trix
- suffix (pl. -trices /trɪˈsiːz/或-trixes) (chiefly in legal terms) forming feminine agent nouns corresponding to masculine nouns ending in -tor (such as executrix corresponding to executor)【主律】表示“女（性）…者”。
USAGEThe suffix -trix has been used since the 15th century to form feminine agent nouns corresponding to masculine forms ending in -tor. Although a wide variety of forms has been coined, very few of them have ever had wide currency. In modern use the suffix is found chiefly in legal terms such as executrix, administratrix, and testatrix.
词源
from Latin.
-trix
fem. agential suffix, from Latin, corresponding to masc. -tor (see -or).
ORIGIN: Repr. Latin fem. suffix corresp. to masc. -tor . Cf. -trice
-trix
\(.)(ˌ)triks, (.)_trēks\ noun suffix
(plural -tri·ces \(.)_trəˌsēz, (.)ˈtrī(ˌ)sēz\ ; or -trixes)
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, feminine of -tor, ending of agent nouns, from -tus, past participle ending + -or — more at -ed
1. : female that does or is associated with a (specified) thing
< aviatrix >
< narratrix >
< inheritrix >
— compare -tress
2. : straight line — in geometry
< trisectrix >
< directrix >
< tractrix >
1.
< aviatrix >
< narratrix >
< inheritrix >
— compare -tress
2.
< trisectrix >
< directrix >
< tractrix >
词根词缀：-trix
【来源及含义】Latin: woman, women; female, females; feminine, femininity
【同源单词】adjutrix, agitatrix, autocratrix, aviatrix, balneatrix, bellatrix