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- Latin · learned borrowing fromrēctrīx“one who directs”
- English todayrectrix
Learned borrowing from Latin rēctrīx (“one who directs”). By surface analysis, rector + -trix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rectrix
Today it means: A governess; a rectoress. Full definition →
Latin rēctrīx