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English
Etymology
From Late Latin mediātrīx, feminine of mediātor.
Pronunciation
Noun
mediatrix (plural mediatrices or mediatrixes)
- A female mediator.
- Synonym: brokeress
1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover. (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106:My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.i.11:He promised, however, to speak to Mr. Harrel upon the subject, but the promise was evidently given to oblige the fair mediatrix, without any hope of advantage to the cause.
- (geometry) The line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint.
2000, Jean H. Gallier, Curves and surfaces in geometric modeling, page 105:[…] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
Post-classical Latin mediātor.
Pronunciation
Noun
mediātrīx f (genitive mediātrīcis, masculine mediātor); third declension
- (Late Latin) mediator, intermediary, go-between (female)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
References
- “mediatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mediatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.