inventrix

English

Alternative forms

• inuentrix [17th century]

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inventrīx.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/

Noun

inventrix (plural inventrices)

1. (archaic or often derogatory) A female that invents.
   • 1673: Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, “Trouveuſe”

     Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.

   • 1997: Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, and Burkhard Riemschneider [eds.], Kippenberger, page 218 (Taschen; →ISBN, 9783822878675)

     Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress

Synonyms

• inventress

Coordinate terms

• inventor

Translations

a female that invents

• French: inventrice (fr) f, trouveuse (fr) f
• Italian: inventrice f
• Latin: inventrīx f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: inventriz
• Welsh: dyfeiswraig f

References

• “inˈventrix” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

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Latin

Etymology

inveniō (“I discover”) +‎ -trīx

Noun

inventrīx f (genitive inventrīcis); third declension

1. An inventrix; a female inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inventrīx	inventrīcēs
Genitive	inventrīcis	inventrīcum
Dative	inventrīcī	inventrīcibus
Accusative	inventrīcem	inventrīcēs
Ablative	inventrīce	inventrīcibus
Vocative	inventrīx	inventrīcēs

Descendants

• English: inventrix
• French: inventrice
• Italian: inventrice

References

• “inventrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inventrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers