mediatrix
nounUK /ˈmiːdɪətɹɪks/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Late Latin mediātrīx. By surface analysis, mediator + -trix.
1
A female mediator.
- My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover. (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106:
- He promised, however, to speak to Mr. Harrel upon the subject, but the promise was evidently given to oblige the fair mediatrix, without any hope of advantage to the cause.1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.i.11:
2
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Rare A bisector, the line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint.
- […] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]2000, Jean H. Gallier, Curves and surfaces in geometric modeling, page 105:
- Synonyms
- mediatress
- Derived terms
- intermediatrix