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Latin
Etymology
From rēgnō (“to rule”) + -trix.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rēgnātrīx (genitive rēgnātrīcis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- Ruling, regnant, reigning, imperial
c. 117 CE,
Tacitus,
Annales 1.4:
- hunc et prima ab infantia eductum in domo regnatrice
- From the earliest infancy he had been raised in an imperial house.
1649, Francesco Altoviti, Ferdinandum II Magnum Hetrvriae Dvcem Gratiae Musicè Colorant Cum Serenissimi Principis Auspicijs Rudem Philosophiæ Tabulam exhiberet in Florentino templo societatis Iesu, Florence:Serenissima pingimus / Magni Principis ora, / Quibus Lilia sternit / Regnatricia Flora.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1701, Ius Hispano-Austriacum assertum, page 142:Inter perpetua Romanorũ dissidia, inde fluxam domuum regnatriciũ fortunam mirum equidem non est firmioribus rempublicam, quod statum attinet, legibus fixam non fuisse.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1702, Johann Augustin Fasch, Prussiae triumphantis libri tres in Coronam Serenissimi & Invictissimi Principis ac Domini Friderici Borvssiæ Regis Primi de Regiæ et Electoralis Domvs Brandenbvrgicæ Rebvs per Evropam Vniversam Immortali Fama Gestis., page 6:Dîs proxime, magnô
Caesare Sigsmundo, Septemviralia prensas
Nomina, dum sancto circumvallata Senatu
Curia summa Deûm Tibi regnatricia spontè
Brennonio fert sceptra Jovi, Divûmque tiaram
Tradit, et imperium Marcae. Pulcherrima merces.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (feminine-only in the singular, feminine- and neuter-only in the plural).
References
- “regnatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “regnatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- regnatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.