Meanings
plural administratrices · plural administratrixes
- lawA female administrator.First known use 16th c.
The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.
1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24Synonyms: administratress, administress
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female administrator.
Origin
- New Latinadministrātrīx
- Englishadministratrix
From New Latin administrātrīx. By surface analysis, administrator + -trix.
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