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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. Doublet of empress.
Noun
imperatrix (plural imperatrices)
- (historical or archaic) female equivalent of imperator; empress
2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies, →ISBN, page 307:When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world.
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Latin
Etymology
From imperō (“to command, order”) + -trīx. Compare imperātor.
Pronunciation
Noun
imperātrīx f (genitive imperātrīcis, masculine imperātor); third declension
- A female ruler of an empire, empress.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imperatrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- imperatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.