Executrix

//ɪɡˈzɛkjətɹɪks// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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

Example

More examples

"‘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.’"

Etymology

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

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.