animatrices

animatrices is the plural of animatrice.

animatrices is the plural of animatrix.

Meaning of animatrice

animatrice (plural animatrices)

A woman who is trained to teach skills and lead activities for her peers.
- Much has been done in recent years to teach occupational skills to animatrices that will be useful to girls and mothers in rural areas.1977, David A. Mitchnik, Improving Ways of Skill Acquisition of Women for Rural Employment in Some African Countries, “Training of animatrices and village leaders”, pages 26–27

animatrix (plural animatrices)

(rare) A female animator (one who animates something, brings something to life).
- With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix.1997, Journal of the History of Sexuality, volume 7, page 603
(rare) A female animator (one who creates an animation or cartoon).
- Video Video, organized by Marien Lewis, video artist and ex-animatrix of A Space, and Monumenta, organized by Stan Denniston, Dave Clarkson and Bernie Miller, two photographers and a sculptor and presently directors of YYZ, are only further proof that such centres have been the seedbeds and forums...1983, The Canadian Forum, volume 62, page 48, column 1

What is animatrices the plural of?: Animatrices is the plural of animatrice.

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