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glossatrix

UK/ɡlɒˈseɪtɹɪks/

glossatrix noun: a specifically female glossator.

Noun

glossatrix (plural glossatrices)

  1. (rare) A specifically female glossator.
    • Next, this voice, which might be termed the “glossatrix,” […]1988, Susan Noakes, Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, pages 119–120, →ISBN
    • In another rapprochement to the “genre narratif bref,” the women are claiming to have knowledge about the world based on experience, handed down in an oral tradition but open to reconfirmation, qualification or refutation at any time (as shown in the interventions of the “glossatrices”).1997: Laura Doyle Gates, Soubz Umbrage de Passetemps: Women’s Storytelling in the Evangiles des Quenouilles, the Comptes Amoureux of Jeanne Flore and the Heptaméron, page 59 (Cérès)

Forms of glossatrix

pluralglossatrices

Origin of glossatrix

Borrowed from Latin glossātrīx, equivalent to glossator + -trix.

Questions about glossatrix

What does glossatrix mean?
Glossatrix means a specifically female glossator.
What part of speech is glossatrix?
Glossatrix is a noun.
How do you pronounce glossatrix?
Glossatrix is pronounced /ɡlɒˈseɪtɹɪks/ (UK).
What is the plural of glossatrix?
The plural of glossatrix is glossatrices.

Words near glossatrix in the dictionary

  1. glossator
  2. glossatorial
  3. glossators
  4. glossatory
  5. glossatrices
  6. glossatrix
  7. Glossbrenner
  8. Glossbrenners
  9. glossectomies
  10. glossectomized
  11. glossectomy

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