Executrix

//ɪɡˈzɛkjətɹɪks// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female executor; a woman appointed to execute a will.

    "‘That would be difficult, you know, Chettam, as she is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things—property, land, that kind of thing.’"

  2. 2
    a woman executor wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English executrice, executrix, from Anglo-Norman and Medieval Latin execūtrīx. By surface analysis, execute + -trix.

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