English

Alternative forms

• inuentrix [17th century]

Noun

inventrix ‎(plural inventrices)

1. (archaic or often pejorative) A female that invents.
   • 1673: Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, “Trouveuſe”

     Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.

   • 1997: Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, and Burkhard Riemschneider [eds.], Kippenberger, page 218 (Taschen; ISBN 3822878677, 9783822878675)

     Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress

Coordinate terms

• inventor

Synonyms

• inventress

Translations

References

• “inˈventrix” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Latin

Etymology

inveniō ‎(“I discover”) +‎ -trīx

Noun

inventrīx f ‎(genitive inventrīcis); third declension

1. An inventrix; a female inventor

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: inventrix
• French: inventrice
• Italian: inventrice

References

• inventrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inventrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers