administratrix

American  

[ad-min-uh-stray-triks, ad-min-uh-, ad-min-uh-stray-] / ædˌmɪn əˈstreɪ trɪks, ˌæd mɪn ə-, ædˈmɪn əˌstreɪ- /

noun

Law.

• administratrices
  plural

1. a woman who is an administrator.

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Gender

What's the difference between administratrix and administrator? See -trix.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• administratrices
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of administratrix

First recorded in 1620–30; from Medieval Latin administrātrix, feminine of administrator; see -trix

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Example Sentences

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administratrix

Since Colonel Green's widow could find no executed will, she sent to Texas a lawyer who asked for her appointment as administratrix of the estate at a $1,000,000 fee.

From Time Magazine Archive

This person is called the administrator, or, if a woman, the administratrix.

From Mary Erskine by Jacob Abbott

He had leased "for many years" from Anne Beddingfield, "wife and administratrix of the goods and chattles of Christopher Beddingfield, deceased," a small plot of land, known by the name of "The Red Bull."

From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

And, with Aunt Winnie as administratrix of Captain Carleton’s pension “there isn’t a dacinter-looking 328 boy in the college,” as Mrs. Mulligan stoutly declares.

From Killykinick by Mary T. (Mary Theresa) Waggaman

Then there were twenty thousand dollars in stock of the County Bank, the interest of which Mrs. Allen had drawn since the death of her husband, regularly, as administratrix of the estate.

From The Allen House by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

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