competitrix

Learned borrowing from Latin competītrīx. By surface analysis, competitor +‎ -trix.

competitrix (plural competrices)

1. (rare) A female competitor.

   Synonym: competitress

   • Edward Herbert, The History of England Under Henry VIII, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Queen Anne being now without competitrix for her title, thought her self secure

From competō, competītum (“to come together”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.pɛˈtiː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.peˈt̪iː.t̪riks]

competītrīx f (genitive competītrīcis, masculine competītor); third declension

1. competitor (female)

Third-declension noun.

• “competitrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “competitrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• competitrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.