conductrix

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin conductrīx. By surface analysis, conduct +‎ -trix.

Pronunciation

Noun

conductrix (plural conductrices)

  1. (uncommon) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
    • 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:
      Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

From condūcō, conductum (to lead, verb) +‎ -trīx f (-ess, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

conductrīx f (genitive conductrīcis, masculine conductor); third declension

  1. a woman who hires or rents something

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative conductrīx conductrīcēs
genitive conductrīcis conductrīcum
dative conductrīcī conductrīcibus
accusative conductrīcem conductrīcēs
ablative conductrīce conductrīcibus
vocative conductrīx conductrīcēs

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