autrice

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French autrice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑuˈtri.sə/
  • Audio (Netherlands):(file)
  • Rhymes: -isə
  • Hyphenation: au‧tri‧ce

Noun

autrice f (plural autrices, diminutive autricetje n)

  1. female equivalent of auteur
    • 1930, “De dichteres op het dakkamertje: waarom zijn de vrouwen onproductief?”, in Nieuwe Apeldoornsche courant:
      De op het oogenblik meest gelezen Engelsche schrijfster Virginia Woolf, autrice van den roman „de Vrouw van vijftig jaar" heeft een geschrift gepubliceerd naar aanleiding van een kort bezoek aan een Engelsche universiteitstad — zij noemt deze Oxbridge — en waarin zij een vergelijk maakt tusschen het weeldeleven der mannelijke studenten en de vaak armelijke omgeving waarin de vrouwelijke studenten leven.
      Today’s most widely read English writer, Virginia Woolf, author of the novel The Woman of Fifty Years, published a paper on the occasion of a brief visit to an English college town—she calls it Oxbridge—in which she writes a comparison between the luxurious life of male students and the often poor environment in which female students live.

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French autrice. Borrowed from Latin auctrīcem.

Pronunciation

Noun

autrice f (plural autrices)

  1. female equivalent of auteur
    • 2019, Harold Grand, “Les données personnelles de 100 millions d’Américains exposées dans un piratage géant”, in Le Figaro:
      L’autrice présumée de l’attaque a été arrêtée à Seattle.
      The alleged perpetrator of the attack was arrested in Seattle.
    • 2019, Jean-Claude Vantroyen, “Auteur, auteure ou autrice ? « Le Soir » choisit autrice”, in Le Soir:
      Parce que le mot sonne clair, affirme sa féminité, s’appuie sur l’histoire et la proximité d’actrice, les Livres du Soir diront, dorénavant, autrice.
      Because the word rings clear, asserts its femininity, is based on history and proximity to actrice , the Livres du Soir will henceforth say, autrice .

Usage notes

  • While some dictionaries do not list a feminine equivalent of auteur, auteure and autrice are occasionally used.

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Further reading

  • Aurore Évain (2008) “Histoire d’autrice, de l’époque latine à nos jours”, in Sêméion : travaux de sémiologie (in French), number 6
  • Aurore Évain (2019) En compagnie. Histoire d'autrice de l'époque latine à nos jours (in French), iXe, →ISBN

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctrīcem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awˈtri.t͡ʃe/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -itʃe
  • Hyphenation: au‧trì‧ce

Noun

autrice f (plural autrici)

  1. female equivalent of autore
    • 1988, Umberto Eco, Il pendolo di Foucault, page 323:
      E la nostra squisita poetessa, la gentile Olinda Mezzofanti Sassabetti, l’autrice di Casti palpiti, avrà letto.
      And our exquisite poet, the kind Olinda Mezzofanti Sassabetti, the author of Casti palpiti, that you must have read, of course.

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Further reading

  • Salvatore Battaglia (1962) Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 1, Turin, page 859.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctrīx, auctrīcem.

Noun

autrice f (plural autrices)

  1. female equivalent of autheur
    • 1554, Louis Le Caron, La Claire, ov De la prudence de droit, dialogue premier. Plus, La clarté amoureuſe, page 17b:
      Quelqu’vn vous dira telles Dames n’eſtre autrices des conſtitutions, qui ſouz leur nom ſont publiées, ains leur conseillers.
      Someone will tell you they ladies are not authors of the laws, which under their name are published, but their advisers.

Quotations

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