mediatrix
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin mediātrīx, feminine of mediātor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mediatrix (plural mediatrices or mediatrixes)
- A female mediator.
- Synonym: brokeress
- 1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover.[1] (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106:
- My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.i.11:
- He promised, however, to speak to Mr. Harrel upon the subject, but the promise was evidently given to oblige the fair mediatrix, without any hope of advantage to the cause.
- (geometry) The line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint.
- 2000, Jean H. Gallier, Curves and surfaces in geometric modeling, page 105:
- […] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]
Synonyms edit
- (female mediator): mediatress
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Post-classical Latin mediātor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈaː.triːks/, [mɛd̪iˈäːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈa.triks/, [med̪iˈäːt̪riks]
Noun edit
mediātrīx f (genitive mediātrīcis, masculine mediātor); third declension
- (Late Latin) mediator, intermediary, go-between (female)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mediātrīx | mediātrīcēs |
| Genitive | mediātrīcis | mediātrīcum |
| Dative | mediātrīcī | mediātrīcibus |
| Accusative | mediātrīcem | mediātrīcēs |
| Ablative | mediātrīce | mediātrīcibus |
| Vocative | mediātrīx | mediātrīcēs |
Related terms edit
References edit
- “mediatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mediatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.