Imperatrix

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Female equivalent of imperator: empress. archaic, feminine, form-of, historical

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The reigning empress; Female equivalent of Imperator. formal

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. By surface analysis, imperator + -trix. Doublet of empress.

Etymology 2

From Latin imperatrix (“empress”).

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