inventrix
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- inuentrix [17th century]
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks, IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/
Noun edit
inventrix (plural inventrices)
- (archaic) A female that invents.
- 1673, Randle Cotgrave, “Trouveuſe”, in A French and English Dictionary:
- Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.
Synonyms edit
Coordinate terms edit
Translations edit
a female that invents
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References edit
- “inˈventrix” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Latin edit
Etymology edit
inveniō (“I discover”) + -trīx
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈu̯en.triːks/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈven.triks/, [iɱˈvɛn̪t̪riks]
Noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
- English: inventrix
- French: inventrice
- Italian: inventrice
References edit
- “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