Meanings
imperatrix1
plural imperatrices
- archaicfemininehistoricalFemale equivalent of imperator: empress.
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
Imperatrix2
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
imperatrix · noun
- Latinimperātrīx
- Englishimperatrix
Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. By surface analysis, imperate + -trix. Doublet of empress.
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Full word history & related roots →Imperatrix · proper noun
- Latinimperatrix“empress”
- EnglishImperatrix
From Latin imperatrix (“empress”).
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imperatrix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imperatrix
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