instigatrix
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin instīgātrīx.
Noun edit
instigatrix (plural instigatrices)
- female equivalent of instigator
- 1811, Biographie Moderne, volume I, page 24:
- Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]
Latin edit
Etymology edit
īnstīgō (“to incite, instigate”) + -trīx
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.stiːˈɡaː.triːks/, [ĩːs̠t̪iːˈɡäːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.stiˈɡa.triks/, [inst̪iˈɡäːt̪riks]
Noun edit
īnstīgātrīx f (genitive īnstīgātrīcis); third declension
- female equivalent of īnstīgātor (“stimulator, instigator”)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | īnstīgātrīx | īnstīgātrīcēs |
| Genitive | īnstīgātrīcis | īnstīgātrīcum |
| Dative | īnstīgātrīcī | īnstīgātrīcibus |
| Accusative | īnstīgātrīcem | īnstīgātrīcēs |
| Ablative | īnstīgātrīce | īnstīgātrīcibus |
| Vocative | īnstīgātrīx | īnstīgātrīcēs |
References edit
- “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers