conductrix
English
Etymology
From the Latin conductrix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪks/
Noun
conductrix (plural conductrices)
- (uncommon) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
- 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:
- Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.
Synonyms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈduk.triːks/, [kɔn̪ˈd̪ʊkt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈduk.triks/, [kon̪ˈd̪ukt̪riks]
Noun
conductrīx f (genitive conductrīcis, masculine conductor); third declension
- a woman who hires or rents something
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “conductrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conductrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- conductrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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