executrix
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English
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Etymology
From Middle English executrice, executrix, from Anglo-Norman and Medieval Latin execūtrīx.[1][2] By surface analysis, execute + -trix.
Pronunciation
Noun
executrix (plural executrices or executrixes)
- (chiefly law) A female executor; a woman appointed to execute a will.[3][4]
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 49, in Middlemarch , volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book V, page 100:
- ‘That would be difficult, you know, Chettam, as she is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things—property, land, that kind of thing.’
- 1949 November 14, “Art: Many Ways”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-03-07:
- His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions […] .
- 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 1:
- One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity […] .
Derived terms
Translations
female executor
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References
- ^ “execūtrīce, -trix, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “executrix, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ The Concise Oxford English Dictionary
- ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Executrix”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 396, column 2.
