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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin stimulātrīx. By surface analysis, stimulator + -trix.
Noun
stimulatrix
- (rare) A female who stimulates.
1803, Tiberius Cavallo, Evolution, page 81:I think it but reasonable to attribute them to her agency, as the stimulatrix and supplier of that electric principle by which land and water, for certain lengths of space and for certain times, mutually attract and repel each other, which is the proper definition of tide.
Latin
Etymology
From stimulō, stimulātum (“to urge on, goad on, stimulate”, verb) + -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
stimulātrīx f (genitive stimulātrīcis, masculine stimulātor); third declension
- she that incites, instigates or stimulates, instigator
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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