Profestrix
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female professor. rare
"Moreover, I introduced into the problem an additional element by requesting their reaction to the word profestrix, […] Mr. John Sparrow, formerly Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford, was very definite: “As for the retired female professor, I am sure she can’t be called profestrix emerita: profestrix simply won’t do! (Indeed I know it wasn’t meant seriously). ” “I don’t trust profestrix for a moment,” wrote Dr. Frank Stubbings, formerly Orator in the University of Cambridge."
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More examples"Moreover, I introduced into the problem an additional element by requesting their reaction to the word profestrix, […] Mr. John Sparrow, formerly Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford, was very definite: “As for the retired female professor, I am sure she can’t be called profestrix emerita: profestrix simply won’t do! (Indeed I know it wasn’t meant seriously). ” “I don’t trust profestrix for a moment,” wrote Dr. Frank Stubbings, formerly Orator in the University of Cambridge."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Contemporary Latin profestrīx. By surface analysis, profess + -trix.
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