dictatrix

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dictator +‎ -rix

Noun

dictatrix (plural dictatrices)

1. (archaic) A female dictator.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dictatrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From dictātor (“chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dikˈtaː.triːks/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪äːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dikˈta.triks/, [d̪ikˈt̪äːt̪riks]

Noun

dictātrīx f (genitive dictātrīcis); third declension

1. (humorous) woman in charge
   • c.205-184 B.C.E., Titus Maccius Plautus Persa, act v, scene 1

     Do hanc tibi florentem florenti: tu
     hic eris dictatrix nobis.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dictātrīx	dictātrīcēs
Genitive	dictātrīcis	dictātrīcum
Dative	dictātrīcī	dictātrīcibus
Accusative	dictātrīcem	dictātrīcēs
Ablative	dictātrīce	dictātrīcibus
Vocative	dictātrīx	dictātrīcēs

Related terms

• dīcō
• dictāmen
• dictātiō
• dictātor
• dictātōrius

• dictātūra
• dictō
• dictum
• dictus

References

• “dictatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dictatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.