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Inventrix vs Inventress - What's the difference?

inventrix | inventress |

As nouns the difference between inventrix and inventress

is that inventrix is a female that invents while inventress is (often|pejorative) an inventrix; a female inventor.

inventrix

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(inventrices)
  • A female that invents.
  • * 1673 : Randle Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary , “ Trouveu?e”
    • Trouveu?e: f. An inventrix'' ; ''or a woman that findeth out .
  • * 1997 : Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, and Burkhard Riemschneider [eds.], Kippenberger , page 218 (Taschen; ISBN 3822878677, 9783822878675)
    • Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress

    Coordinate terms

    * inventor

    Synonyms

    * inventress

    References

    * “ in?ventrix]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----

    inventress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (often, pejorative) An inventrix; a female inventor