dictatrix

== English == === Etymology === From Latin dictātrīx. By surface analysis, dictate +‎ -trix. === Noun === dictatrix (plural dictatrices) A female dictator. Synonym: dictatress (archaic) A dictatorial entity personified as female; that which dictates. Synonym: dictatress 1756, George Anderson, A Remonstrance against Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Religion cited in a review in The Monthly Review, Volume 16, 1757, p. 240,[6] […] how can you […] plead a religious conscience as a dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God’s moral attributes? ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From dictō (“to dictate, prescribe”) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, feminine agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪkˈtaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [dikˈtaː.triks] === Noun === dictātrīx f (genitive dictātrīcis, masculine dictātor); third declension (humorous) woman in charge ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: dictatrix → French: dictatrice → Italian: dittatrice === 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.