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- Latin · borrowed fromadvocātrīx
- English todayadvocatrix
From Latin advocātrīx, from advocāre (“advocate”) + -trīx (“-ess”, forming feminine agent nouns), from ad- (“to, toward, on behalf of”) + vocāre (“speak”). By surface analysis, advocate + -trix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.