agitatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin agitātrīx, feminine of agitātor. By surface analysis, agitate +‎ -trix.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æd͡ʒɪˈteɪtɹɪks/

agitatrix (plural agitatrices)

1. (rare) A woman who agitates; a female agitator.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:agitatrix.

• agitation
• agitator

From agitō, agitātum (“to put something in motion”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.ɡɪˈtaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.d͡ʒiˈt̪aː.t̪riks]

agitātrīx f (genitive agitātrīcis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) female equivalent of agitātor
2. (Late Latin) Any thing that is moving (of the emotions or spirit)

This word does not seem to appear in Classical Latin texts, but is used in Later Latin.

Third-declension noun.

• Translingual: Catocala agitatrix

• “agitatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agitatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• agitatrix in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Incunabula Books Latin word list