imperatrix en · NOUN
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. By surface analysis, imperate + -trix. Doublet of empress.
Meanings
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(archaic, feminine, form-of, historical) Female equivalent of imperator: empress.
form of imperator
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.
2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies, →ISBN, page 307:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| imperatrices | Number=Plur | lexicographic |