instigatrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator +‎ -trix. === Noun === instigatrix (plural instigatrices) Female equivalent of instigator. === References === “instigatrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From īnstīgō, īnstīgātum (“to incite, instigate”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩː.stiːˈɡaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in.stiˈɡaː.triks] === Noun === īnstīgātrīx f (genitive īnstīgātrīcis); third declension female equivalent of īnstīgātor (“stimulator, instigator”) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers