imperatrix

See also: Imperatrix

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. By surface analysis, imperate +‎ -trix. Doublet of empress.

Noun

imperatrix (plural imperatrices)

1. (historical or archaic) Female equivalent of imperator: empress.
   • 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies‎^[1], →ISBN, page 307:

     When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world.

Coordinate terms

• imperator (masculine of imperatrix)

References

• “imperatrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• perimatrix

Latin

Alternative forms

• inperātrīx

Etymology

From imperō, imperātum (“to command, order”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.pɛˈraː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.peˈraː.triks]

Noun

imperātrīx f (genitive imperātrīcis, masculine imperātor); third declension

1. A female ruler of an empire, empress.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	imperātrīx	imperātrīcēs
genitive	imperātrīcis	imperātrīcum
dative	imperātrīcī	imperātrīcibus
accusative	imperātrīcem	imperātrīcēs
ablative	imperātrīce	imperātrīcibus
vocative	imperātrīx	imperātrīcēs

Coordinate terms

• imperātor

Related terms

• imperābiliter
• imperāns
• imperātīvē
• imperātīvus
• imperātōriē
• imperātōrius
• imperātum
• imperātus
• imperiābiliter
• imperiālis
• imperiōsē
• imperiōsus
• imperitō
• imperium
• imperō

Descendants

• → Old French: empereriz, empereiz, emperice (Anglo-Norman) (semi-learned)
  • → Middle English: emperice
    • English: empress
    • Scots: empress
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: emperadriz, emperadrix (semi-learned)
  • Galician: emperatriz (influenced by Latin)
  • Portuguese: imperatriz (influenced by Latin)
• → French: impératrice
• → Italian: imperatrice (semi-learned)
• → Russian: императрица (imperatrica)
• → Old Spanish: emperatrix (semi-learned)
  • → Spanish: emperatriz

References

• “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "imperatrix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “imperatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.