inventrix

== English == === Alternative forms === inuentrix [17th century] === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin inventrīx. By surface analysis, inventor +‎ -trix. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks, IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/ === Noun === inventrix (plural inventrices) (archaic) A female that invents. ==== Synonyms ==== inventress ==== Coordinate terms ==== inventor ==== Translations ==== === References === “inˈventrix” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] “inventrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From inveniō, inventum (“to discover”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪnˈwɛn.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈvɛn.triks] === Noun === inventrīx f (genitive inventrīcis, masculine inventor); third declension an inventrix; a female inventor, inventress; she that finds out or discovers something ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== 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