instigatrix

English

Etymology

From Latin īnstīgātrīx.

Noun

instigatrix (plural instigatrices)

1. female equivalent of instigator
   • 1811, Biographie Moderne, volume I, page 24:

     Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]

Latin

Etymology

From īnstīgō (“to incite, instigate”) +‎ -trīx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.stiːˈɡaː.triːks/, [ĩːs̠t̪iːˈɡäːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.stiˈɡa.triks/, [inst̪iˈɡäːt̪riks]

Noun

īnstīgātrīx f (genitive īnstīgātrīcis); third declension

1. female equivalent of īnstīgātor (“stimulator, instigator”)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnstīgātrīx	īnstīgātrīcēs
genitive	īnstīgātrīcis	īnstīgātrīcum
dative	īnstīgātrīcī	īnstīgātrīcibus
accusative	īnstīgātrīcem	īnstīgātrīcēs
ablative	īnstīgātrīce	īnstīgātrīcibus
vocative	īnstīgātrīx	īnstīgātrīcēs

References

• “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “instigatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers