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.

• -rix
• indagate
• indagation
• indagative
• indagator
• indagatory

• The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).

• x-radiating

indagō (“to trace, explore”) +‎ -trīx

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.daːˈɡaː.triːks/, [ɪn̪d̪äːˈɡäːt̪riːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.daˈɡa.triks/, [in̪d̪äˈɡäːt̪riks]

indāgātrīx f (genitive indāgātrīcis); 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