inventrix
English
Alternative forms
- inuentrix [17th century]
Etymology
From the Latin inventrīx.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks, IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/
Noun
inventrix (plural inventrices)
- (archaic or often derogatory) A female that invents.
- 1673: Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, “Trouveuſe”
- Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.
- 1997: Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, and Burkhard Riemschneider [eds.], Kippenberger, page 218 (Taschen; →ISBN, 9783822878675)
- Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress
- 1673: Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, “Trouveuſe”
Synonyms
- inventress
Coordinate terms
- inventor
Translations
a female that invents
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References
- “inˈventrix” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Latin
Etymology
inveniō (“I discover”) + -trīx
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈu̯en.triːks/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪riːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈven.triks/, [iɱˈvɛn̪t̪riks]
Noun
inventrīx f (genitive inventrīcis, masculine inventor); third declension
- an inventrix; a female inventor, inventress; she that finds out or discovers something
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.709-710:
- ‘sum tamen inventrīx auctorque ego carminis huius
hoc est, cūr nostrōs ars cōlat ista diēs.’- “Yet I am the inventress, I the originator, of this music. This is why that art observes my [festival] days.”
(The poetic voice of Minerva credits herself for having invented the pipe or flute; the flute-players of ancient Rome honored the goddess annually in June.)
- “Yet I am the inventress, I the originator, of this music. This is why that art observes my [festival] days.”
- ‘sum tamen inventrīx auctorque ego carminis huius
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | inventrīx | inventrīcēs |
Genitive | inventrīcis | inventrīcum |
Dative | inventrīcī | inventrīcibus |
Accusative | inventrīcem | inventrīcēs |
Ablative | inventrīce | inventrīcibus |
Vocative | inventrīx | inventrīcēs |
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