cantatrice

American  

[kan-tuh-tree-chey, -trees, kahn-tah-tree-che, kahn-ta-trees] / ˌkæn təˈtri tʃeɪ, -ˈtris, ˌkɑn tɑˈtri tʃɛ, kɑ̃ taˈtris /

noun

cantatrices, plural cantatrici plural

1. a professional female singer especially of opera.

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cantatrice British  

/ kɑ̃tatris /

noun

1. a female singer, esp a professional soloist

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• cantatrices
  plural
• cantatrici
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cantatrice

First recorded in 1800–05; from French or directly from Italian, from Late Latin cantātrīc-, stem of cantātrīx “female singer”; see origin at cantor, -trix

Example Sentences

Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Words flunked: dioceses, cantatrice, Nabuchodonosor, a fortiori, conchoidal.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had no fashionable cantatrice to sing the part of Marguerite.

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

Our young singer, like many another brilliant cantatrice, in the very dawn of her great career fell into the nets of a shrewd and unprincipled operatic speculator.

From Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

Yes, he, too, could see this unexpected cantatrice.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison