administratrix
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin administrātrīx.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
administratrix (plural administratrices or administratrixes)
- A female administrator. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: administratress, administress
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24:
- The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.