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English

Etymology

From Latin dictātrīx. By surface analysis, dictate +‎ -trix.

Noun

dictatrix (plural dictatrices)

  1. A female dictator.
    • 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 3, in The Caxtons‎, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 70:
      Our principal domestic, in dignity and station, was Mrs Primmins, who was waiting gentlewoman, housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment.
    • 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 32, in My Wife and I‎, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 340:
      Prudent mammas were generally of opinion that the height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune.
    • 1937, Caroline Gordon, chapter 11, in The Garden of Adonis‎, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, published 1971, page 131:
      There is a young lady who is dictatrix—social dictatrix of Countsville. They run wherever she leads them.
    • 1995 January, Thomas M. Disch, “The Lipstick on the Mirror”, in Poetry, page 192:
      the face of the distant / Sovereign began to melt and coalesce / With the faces of all women fair and rich: / Movie starlets, heiresses, cruel / Dictatrices, anchorwomen, teen murderesses / Able to sell their tales to Hollywood.
    • 2011, Joanna Lumley, Absolutely,‎, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 141:
      My part was Miralda Sumac, a murderous dictatrix who comes to a bad end.
  2. (archaic) A dictatorial entity personified as female; that which dictates.
    • 1648, Jeremy Taylor, Treatises together with a sermon‎, London: R. Royston, dedicatory epistle, page 42:
      the Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions, and the declarer of Heresy
    • 1756, George Anderson, A Remonstrance against Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Religion cited in a review in The Monthly Review, Volume 16, 1757, p. 240,
      how can you plead a religious conscience as a dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God’s moral attributes?

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References

  1. ^ “dictatrix, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology

From dictō (“to dictate, prescribe”) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, feminine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

dictātrīx f (genitive dictātrīcis, masculine dictātor); third declension

  1. (humorous) woman in charge
    • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa V.1:
      Do hanc tibi florentem (mensam) florenti.
      tu hic eris dictatrix nobis.
      I give to your blooming self this copious meal.
      you shall here be master upon us.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dictātrīx dictātrīcēs
genitive dictātrīcis dictātrīcum
dative dictātrīcī dictātrīcibus
accusative dictātrīcem dictātrīcēs
ablative dictātrīce dictātrīcibus
vocative dictātrīx dictātrīcēs

Descendants

  • → English: dictatrix
  • → French: dictatrice
  • → Italian: dittatrice

References

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