-trix

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-trix

  • /-tɹɪks/ Australia, Canada, US, UK, Scotland
  • /-tɹəks/ New Zealand
  • /-ʈɹɪks/ India

Rhymes with -ɪks

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Learned borrowing from Latin -trīx, -trīcis.

suffix -trices · -trixes

  1. dated, morpheme Found on the end of words, chiefly female agent nouns.
  2. morpheme Forms nouns defining women who engage in specific forms of sexual dominance (by analogy with dominatrix)

Similar: -a, -ess, -ette, -ine, -ress, she-

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