inventrixとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin inventrīx. By surface analysis, inventor +‎ -trix.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks, IPA: /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/

名詞

inventrix (plural inventrices)

1. (archaic) A female that invents.
   • 1673, Randle Cotgrave, “Trouveuſe”, in A French and English Dictionary:

     Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.

   • 1997, Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, Burkhard Riemschneider, editors, Kippenberger, Taschen, →ISBN, page 218, →ISBN:

     Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress

同意語

• inventress

等位語

• inventor

参照

• “inˈventrix” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
• “inventrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪnˈwɛn.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [iɱˈvɛn.triks]

名詞

inventrīx f (genitive inventrīcis, masculine inventor); third declension

1. an inventrix; a female inventor, inventress; she that finds out or discovers something
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.709–710:

     ‘sum tamen inventrīx auctorque ego carminis huius
     hoc est, cūr nostrōs ars cōlat ista diēs.’

     “Yet I am the inventress, I the originator, of this music. This is why that art observes my [festival] days.”
     (The poetic voice of Minerva credits herself for having invented the pipe or flute; the flute-players of ancient Rome honored the goddess annually in June.)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: inventrix
• French: inventrice
• Italian: inventrice

参照

• “inventrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inventrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers