inventrix
nounUK /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin inventrīx. By surface analysis, inventor + -trix.
1
Archaic A female that invents.
- Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.1673, Randle Cotgrave, “Trouveuſe”, in A French and English Dictionary:
- Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress1997, Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, Burkhard Riemschneider, editors, Kippenberger, Taschen, →ISBN, page 218, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- inventress
- Coordinate terms
- inventor