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mediatrices

mediatrices is the plural of mediatrix.

mediatrices is the plural of mediatrice.

Meaning of mediatrix

Noun

mediatrix (plural mediatrices or mediatrixes)

  1. A female mediator.
    • My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover. (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106
  2. (rare) A bisector, the line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint.
    • […] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]2000, Jean H. Gallier, Curves and surfaces in geometric modeling, page 105

Meaning of mediatrice

Noun

mediatrice (plural mediatrices)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of mediatrix (“female mediator”).
    Synonyms:
    mediatrix

Questions about mediatrices

What is mediatrices the plural of?
Mediatrices is the plural of mediatrix.

Words near mediatrices in the dictionary

  1. mediatour
  2. mediatours
  3. mediatress
  4. mediatresses
  5. mediatrice
  6. mediatrices
  7. mediatrix
  8. mediatrixes
  9. mediazation
  10. Mediaș
  11. medible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mediatrices (page history and authors); mediatrix (page history and authors); mediatrice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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