conductrix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin conductrīx. By surface analysis, conduct +‎ -trix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪks/

Noun

conductrix (plural conductrices)

1. (uncommon) 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.

Synonyms

• conductress

Latin

Etymology

From condūcō, conductum (“to lead”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈdʊk.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈduk.triks]

Noun

conductrīx f (genitive conductrīcis, masculine conductor); third declension

1. a woman who hires or rents something

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	conductrīx	conductrīcēs
genitive	conductrīcis	conductrīcum
dative	conductrīcī	conductrīcibus
accusative	conductrīcem	conductrīcēs
ablative	conductrīce	conductrīcibus
vocative	conductrīx	conductrīcēs

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)