motrix
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A post-classical Latin female form of classical Latin motor (“motor”). It is used as the feminine form of motor (“(he) that moves”) in neo-Latin, as in the original of Newton's Laws of Motion: proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae ‘is proportional to the motive force applied’ formed on the agentive suffix: -tor (masculine) / -trix (feminine).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]motrix (plural not attested)
- (rare) A female instigator or cause of something.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
- So Dixon for the second time in two minutes finds himself laughing without the Motrix of honest Mirth