Definitions
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- noun A
woman ,girl , or otherfemale whotranslates ; aspecifically femaletranslator .
Etymologies
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translat(or) + -rix, as a regular Latinate formation of the feminine agent noun
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Examples
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She was a student in her final year there, and she was made up to look like she was a crazed eighty year old "translatrix" of Russian literature (so you can't recognize her in any of the photos).
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"Almost blind," came his immediate reply, only to be followed by a stream of incomprehensible typos, a translatrix with particularly dazzling eye-wear having presumably loomed into view.
BiB 2009
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