inspectrix

Learned borrowing from Late Latin īnspectrīx. First attested in 1715. By surface analysis, inspector +‎ -trix.

• enPR: ĭn-spĕk′trĭks
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛk.tɹɪks/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspek.tɹɪks/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ənˈspek.tɹəks/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛ(ː)k.ʈɾɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛktrɪks
• Hyphenation: in‧spec‧​trix

inspectrix (plural inspectrices)

1. Female equivalent of inspector.

   Synonym: inspectress

   • 1715, Jane Barker, Exilius: […], London: Edmund Curll:

     […] Light, the busy Inspectrix of all our Actions, […]

• “inspectrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• “inspectrix, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From īnspiciō + -trīx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈspɛk.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈspɛk.triks]
• Hyphenation: īn‧spec‧trīx

īnspectrīx f (genitive īnspectrīcis, masculine īnspector); third declension (Late Latin)

1. female equivalent of īnspector
   • c. 339 CE – 397 CE, Ambrose, Epistulæ 5.10

Third-declension noun.

• “inspectrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• īnspectrīx in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 320
• “inspectrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 831.