indagatrix

From Latin indāgātrīx, feminine form of indāgātor (“investigator”).

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

indagatrix (plural indagatrices)

1. (obsolete, rare) A female investigator; a searcheress.
   • 1653, Richard Sanders, Physiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled, page 269:

     The soul, the indigatrix of all things.

• The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).

• x-radiating

From indagō, indāgātum (“to trace, explore”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.daːˈɡaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪.d̪aˈɡaː.t̪riks]

indāgātrīx f (genitive indāgātrīcis, masculine indāgātor); third declension

1. female equivalent of indāgātor (“investigator, researcher”)

Third-declension noun.

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