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profestrix

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Contemporary Latin profestrīx. By surface analysis, profess + -trix.

  1. learned borrowing from profestrīx

Definitions

  1. A female professor.

    • Of course "profestrix", [re]constructed on the antique model, would be right for the old verb. In fact, it is quite frequently used nowadays, esp. by profestrices of Latin, as in: [links] and a lot of others.
    • Actually, she was a profestrix emerita.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA