administratrix
English
editEtymology
editFrom New Latin administrātrīx.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editadministratrix (plural administratrices or administratrixes)
- A female administrator. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: administratress, administress
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24:
- The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.