senatrix

English

Etymology

From Latin senātrīx, the feminine form of senātor.

Noun

senatrix (plural senatrices)

1. (rare) A female senator (a female member of a senate)
   • 2014, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn:

     The Federal elections, for which women were entitled to stand as senatorial candidates, had come previously, though old prejudice had been too strong to the extent of many votes to grasp that a woman might really be a senatrix, and that a vote cast for her would not be wasted, still one woman candidate had polled 51,597 votes […]

2. (rare) Traditionally used as a term of address for a female senator in parliamentary proceedings in some Senates like those of the United States, Canada and France .
   • 1934, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congressional Record-Senate:

     Mrs. CARAWAY of Arkansas. Mr. President, will the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania yield to a few questions?
     Mr. REED of Pennsylvania. I yield to the Senatrix from Arkansas.

3. (rare, dated) The wife of a senator.
   • 1897, George Herbert Dryer, History of the Christian Church:

     Theodora, beautiful, able, and shameless, was called the senatrix, the wife of the senator Theophylact, and the soul of that great, noble family and its dependents.

Synonyms

• (female senator): senatress

Anagrams

• intrasex

Latin

Etymology

From senātor (“Senate member”) +‎ -trīx, originally from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈnaː.triːks/, [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈna.triks/, [seˈnäːt̪riks]

Noun

senātrīx f (genitive senātrīcis, masculine senātor); third declension

1. female senator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	senātrīx	senātrīcēs
genitive	senātrīcis	senātrīcum
dative	senātrīcī	senātrīcibus
accusative	senātrīcem	senātrīcēs
ablative	senātrīce	senātrīcibus
vocative	senātrīx	senātrīcēs

Related terms

• senātor
• senātōrius
• senātus
• senex

References

• “senatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• senatrix 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)
• senatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.