imperatrix
See also: Imperatrix
English
Etymology
Latin imperātrīx. Doublet of empress.
Noun
imperatrix (plural imperatrices)
- (historical or archaic) female equivalent of imperator; empress
- 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies, →ISBN, page 307:
- When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world.
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Coordinate terms
- imperator (masculine of imperatrix)
Anagrams
- perimatrix
Latin
Alternative forms
- inperātrīx
Etymology
From imperō (“to command, order”) + -trīx. Compare imperātor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /im.peˈraː.triːks/, [ɪmpɛˈräːt̪riːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.peˈra.triks/, [impeˈräːt̪riks]
Noun
imperātrīx f (genitive imperātrīcis, masculine imperātor); third declension
- A female ruler of an empire, empress.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | imperātrīx | imperātrīcēs |
| Genitive | imperātrīcis | imperātrīcum |
| Dative | imperātrīcī | imperātrīcibus |
| Accusative | imperātrīcem | imperātrīcēs |
| Ablative | imperātrīce | imperātrīcibus |
| Vocative | imperātrīx | imperātrīcēs |
Coordinate terms
- imperātor
Related terms
- imperābiliter
- imperāns
- imperātīvē
- imperātīvus
- imperātōriē
- imperātōrius
- imperātum
- imperātus
- imperiābiliter
- imperiālis
- imperiōsē
- imperiōsus
- imperitō
- imperium
- imperō
Descendants
- French: impératrice
- Italian: imperatrice
- Old French: empereriz, empereiz; emperice
- → Middle English: emperice
- English: empress
- Scots: empress
- → Middle English: emperice
- Portuguese: imperatriz
- Russian: императрица (imperatrica)
- Spanish: emperatriz
References
- “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imperatrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- imperatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette