Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

imperatrix

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-per-a-trix
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Female equivalent of imperator: empress.

Archaic

name

The reigning empress; Female equivalent of Imperator.

Formal

Example Sentences

"When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. By surface analysis, imperate + -trix. Doublet of empress.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: imperatrix

Usage

Inflected Forms

imperatrices (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

imperator Regina

Synonyms

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Questions

What does imperatrix mean?: Female equivalent of imperator: empress.
Where does imperatrix come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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