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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.
Noun
instigatrix (plural instigatrices)
- Female equivalent of instigator.
1811, Biographie Moderne, volume I, page 24:Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals
Latin
Etymology
From īnstīgō, īnstīgātum (“to incite, instigate”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
īnstīgātrīx f (genitive īnstīgātrīcis); third declension
- female equivalent of īnstīgātor (“stimulator, instigator”)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers