Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

formatrix

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: for-ma-trix
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A formative faculty.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"By which laſt Obſervables, we ſee that there may be very pretty body ſhap’d and concreeted by Mechanical principles, without the leaſt ſhew or probability of any other ſeminal formatrix."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fōrmātrīx. By surface analysis, form + -ate + -trix.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

formatrixes (plural) formatrices (plural)

Questions

What does formatrix mean?: A formative faculty.
Where does formatrix come from?: Learned borrowing from Late Latin fōrmātrīx. By surface analysis, form + -ate + -trix.

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