dispensatrix
English
Noun
dispensatrix
- (archaic) A female dispensator.
- 1852, The Glories of Mary, translation of original by Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, page 439:
- Rightly then is this divine mother called the treasure, the treasurer, and the dispensatrix of divine graces.
Latin
Noun
dispēnsātrīx f (genitive dispēnsātrīcis, masculine dispēnsātor); third declension
- steward, dispenser (female)
- housekeeper
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “dispensatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dispensatrix 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)
- dispensatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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