-trix

Australia, Canada, US, UK, Scotland/-tɹɪks/New Zealand/-tɹəks/India/-ʈɹɪks/

suffix

Found on the end of words, chiefly female agent nouns.

Meanings

suffix-trix (noun-forming suffix, plural -trices or -trixes)

plural -trices · plural -trixes

  1. datedplural usually -tricesFound on the end of words, chiefly female agent nouns.
  2. plural usually -trixesBDSMForms nouns defining women who engage in specific forms of sexual dominance (by analogy with dominatrix)

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. ['la-trīx
  2. Latin-trīx
  3. English-trix

Learned borrowing from Latin -trīx, -trīcis.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with -trix

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Cite this entry
APA

-trix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-trix

MLA

“-trix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-trix. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-trix,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-trix.

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