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English
Etymology
From the Latin inventrīx.
Pronunciation
Noun
inventrix (plural inventrices)
- (archaic) A female that invents.
1673, Randle Cotgrave, “Trouveuſe”, in A French and English Dictionary:Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.
1997, Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, Burkhard Riemschneider, editors, Kippenberger, Taschen, →ISBN, page 218, →ISBN:Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress
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Latin
Etymology
inveniō (“I discover”) + -trīx
Pronunciation
Noun
inventrīx f (genitive inventrīcis, masculine inventor); third declension
- an inventrix; a female inventor, inventress; she that finds out or discovers something
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 6.709–710:
- ‘sum tamen inventrīx auctorque ego carminis huius
hoc est, cūr nostrōs ars cōlat ista diēs.’- “Yet I am the inventress, I the originator, of this music. This is why that art observes my days.”
(The poetic voice of Minerva credits herself for having invented the pipe or flute; the flute-players of ancient Rome honored the goddess annually in June.)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “inventrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inventrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers