Meanings
plural assassinatrices
- rareA female assassin.
The young Socialists had glorified Vera Sassoulitsch, the Russian would-be assassinatrix.
1881, Leonard A. Montefiore, Essays and Letters Contributed to Various Periodicals between September 1877 and August 1879, together with Some Unpublished Fragments, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page xlvi2 more examples
[T]he Bride tracks down [David] Carradine's Bill—leader, mentor and more to this unstoppable assassinatrix.
2004 April 14, Richard von Busack, “‘Bill’ Paying: When Everything is Cool, Nothing is Hip—Quentin Tarantino Kills Again [review of Kill Bill: Volume 2]”, in Metroactive, Metro Silicon Valley, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2015Having appeared with Jason [Statham] in Lock, Stock [and Two Smoking Barrels], Snatch and Mean Machine didn't necessarily qualify Jason Flemyng to play the hapless Russian villain Dimitri, while Kate Nauta's role as an evil assassinatrix dressed only in bra, pants, suspenders and high heels teetered from the initially sexy to the rudely ridiculous.
2011, Len Brown, Jason Statham: Taking Stock, London: Orion Publishing, →OCLCSynonyms: assassinatress
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female assassin.
Origin
- Latinassassinatrix
- Englishassassinatrix
From Latin assassinatrix. By surface analysis, assassinate + -trix.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic خَشَّاشَة, سَفَّاكَة
- خَشَّاشَة (ḵaššāša)female assassin
- سَفَّاكَة (saffāka)female assassin
- سَفَّاحَة (saffāḥa)female assassin
Italian assassinatrice
- assassinatricefemale assassin
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