executor vs. executrix

noun

  1. a person who executes, carries out, or performs some duty, job, assignment, artistic work, etc.

  2. Law.,  a person named in a decedent's will to carry out the provisions of that will.

noun

Law.

plural

executrices, executrixes 
  1. a woman named in a decedent's will to carry out the provisions of that will.