conductrix

English

Etymology

From the Latin conductrix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪks/

Noun

conductrix (plural conductrices)

1. (uncommon) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
   • 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:

     Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

Synonyms

• conductress

Latin

Etymology

From conductor (“employer”) +‎ -trīx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.triːks/, [kɔn̪ˈd̪ʊkt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.triks/, [kon̪ˈd̪ukt̪riks]

Noun

conductrīx f (genitive conductrīcis, masculine conductor); third declension

1. a woman who hires or rents something

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	conductrīx	conductrīcēs
genitive	conductrīcis	conductrīcum
dative	conductrīcī	conductrīcibus
accusative	conductrīcem	conductrīcēs
ablative	conductrīce	conductrīcibus
vocative	conductrīx	conductrīcēs

References

• “conductrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conductrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• conductrix 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)