executrix
nounEtymology
From Late Middle English executrice, executrix (“female executor; administrator of the law; wielder of fate”), from Medieval Latin execūtrīx (possibly through Anglo-Norman *executrice) from execūtor, exsecūtor (“accomplisher, performer; prosecutor, revenger”), + Latin -trīx (suffix forming feminine agent nouns). Exsecūtor is derived from Latin exsequor (“to follow after thoroughly, pursue persistently; (figurative) to execute, perform; to pursue with vengeance, avenge”) (from ex- (intensifying prefix) + sequor (“to follow, pursue”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”))) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). By surface analysis, execute + -trix (suffix forming feminine agent nouns).
- derived from exsequor — “to follow after thoroughly, pursue persistently; (figurative) to execute, perform; to pursue with vengeance, avenge”
- derived from -trīx
- derived from *executrice✻
- derived from execūtrīx
- inherited from executrice
Definitions
A female person who executes or carries out something.
A female person appointed to execute the wishes of a deceased person as stated in their…
A female person appointed to execute the wishes of a deceased person as stated in their will; a female executor.
- And fewe [wives] there be that be not made at the death of their huſbandes either ſole or chiefe executrixes of his laſt wil and teſtament, and haue for the moſt part the gouernement of the children and their portions: […]
- A female […] at ſeventeen may be executrix; and at tvventy one may diſpoſe of herſelf and her lands.
- [S]he is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things—property, land, that kind of thing.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA