administratrix
noun/ədˌmɪnɪˈstɹeɪ(ˌ)tɹɪks/ · /æd-/
Etymology From New Latin administrātrīx. By surface analysis, administrator + -trix.
1
Law A female administrator.
- The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24:
- Derived terms
- administratrixship, coadministratrix
- Related terms
- administer, administrative