imperatrix

See also: Imperatrix

English

imperatrix (plural imperatrices)

(historical or archaic) female equivalent of imperator; empress
- 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies‎^[1], →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.

From imperō (“to command, order”) +‎ -trīx. Compare imperātor.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /im.peˈraː.triːks/, [ɪmpɛˈräːt̪riːks̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.peˈra.triks/, [impeˈräːt̪riks]

imperātrīx f (genitive imperātrīcis, masculine imperātor); third declension

Old French: empereriz, empereiz; emperice (Anglo-Norman)
- → Middle English: emperice
  - English: empress
  - Scots: empress
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: emperadriz, emperadrix (semi-learned)
- Galician: emperatriz (influenced by Latin)
- Portuguese: imperatriz (influenced by Latin)
→ French: impératrice
→ Italian: imperatrice
→ Russian: императрица (imperatrica)
→ Old Spanish: emperatrix (semi-learned)
- → Spanish: emperatriz

“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.