Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

instigatrix

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-sti-ga-trix
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Female equivalent of instigator.

Example Sentences

"Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.

Inflected Forms

instigatrices (plural)

Questions

What does instigatrix mean?: Female equivalent of instigator.
Where does instigatrix come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.

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