Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English learned borrowings from Latin#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CONDUCTRIX conductrīx. By surface analysis, conduct +‎ -trixCategory:English terms suffixed with -trix#CONDUCTRIX.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪks/Category:English 3-syllable words#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CONDUCTRIX

Noun

conductrix (plural conductrices)Category:English lemmas#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English nouns#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English countable nouns#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#CONDUCTRIXCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Pages with entries#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CONDUCTRIX

1. (uncommonCategory:English terms with uncommon senses#CONDUCTRIX) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
   • 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:

     Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

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Etymology

From condūcō, conductum (“to lead”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -trix#CONDUCTRIX.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈdʊk.triːks]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CONDUCTRIX
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈduk.triks]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CONDUCTRIX

Noun

conductrīx f (genitive conductrīcis, masculine conductor)Category:Latin lemmas#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin nouns#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin third declension nouns#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin feminine nouns in the third declension#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Latin feminine nouns#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Pages with entries#CONDUCTRIXCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CONDUCTRIX; third declension

1. a woman who hires or rents something

References

• “conductrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conductrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "conductrix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)