Meanings
- humorousrareA female arbiter, an arbitress.
Thalèa was daughter of Vulcan; and Ætna, on the other hand, was an arbitrix between litigating parties, and pronounced judgement when Vulcan and Ceres disputed for the land of Sicily.
1826, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, volume III, page 2162 more examples
Neither do I write to insult your misfortunes in this that I, so injured by you, am now the arbitrix of your fate almost as certainly as fate herself — and you know if you have deserved much moderation from me.
1844, Emma Robinson, Whitefriars, Third edition, volume I, page 32Maxine began to wonder…might Horst actually have a preference for women named after inexpensive cigars, was there perhaps a Philippa “Philly” Blunt stashed in London he's playing FTSE with, some alluring Asian arbitrix named Roi-Tan in a cheongsam and one of those little haircuts…
2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 22
Origin
- Latinarbitrīx
- Englisharbitrix
Learned borrowing from Latin arbitrīx. By surface analysis, arbiter + -trix.
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