motrix

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/ˈməʊtɹɪks/

noun

A female instigator or cause of something.

OriginLatin motor →
Scrabble 15
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Meanings

nounmotrix (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralrareA female instigator or cause of something.

    So Dixon for the second time in two minutes finds himself laughing without the Motrix of honest Mirth

    1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13

Origin

  1. Latinmotor“motor”
  2. Englishmotrix

A post-classical Latin female form of classical Latin motor (“motor”). It is used as the feminine form of motor (“(he) that moves”) in neo-Latin, as in the original of Newton's Laws of Motion: proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae ‘is proportional to the motive force applied’ formed on the agentive suffix: -tor (masculine) / -trix (feminine).

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APA

motrix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motrix

MLA

“motrix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motrix. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “motrix,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motrix.

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