dispensatrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin dispēnsātrīx. By surface analysis, dispensator +‎ -trix. === Noun === dispensatrix (archaic) A female dispensator. === References === “dispensatrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From dispēnsō, dispēnsātum (“to dispense”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪs.pẽːˈsaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [dis.penˈsaː.triks] === Noun === dispēnsātrīx f (genitive dispēnsātrīcis, masculine dispēnsātor); third declension steward, dispenser (female) housekeeper ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “dispensatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "dispensatrix", 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) “dispensatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.