imperatrix

Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. Doublet of empress.

imperatrix (plural imperatrices)

1. (historical or archaic) female equivalent of imperator; empress
   • 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies‎^[1], →ISBN, page 307:

     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.

• imperator (masculine of imperatrix)

• perimatrix

• inperātrīx

From imperō (“to command, order”) +‎ -trīx. Compare imperātor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /im.peˈraː.triːks/, [ɪmpɛˈräːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.peˈra.triks/, [impeˈräːt̪riks]

imperātrīx f (genitive imperātrīcis, masculine imperātor); third declension

1. A female ruler of an empire, empress.

Third-declension noun.

• imperātor

• Old French: empereriz, empereiz, emperice (Anglo-Norman)
  • → Middle English: emperice
    • English: empress
    • Scots: empress
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: emperadriz, emperadrix (semi-learned)
  • Galician: emperatriz (influenced by Latin)
  • Portuguese: imperatriz (influenced by Latin)
• → French: impératrice
• → Italian: imperatrice
• → Russian: императрица (imperatrica)
• → Old Spanish: emperatrix (semi-learned)
  • → Spanish: emperatriz

• “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imperatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imperatrix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• imperatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.